{"id":14509,"date":"2025-09-16T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:23:05","slug":"sqinks-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/16\/sqinks-kick\/","title":{"rendered":"Sqinks Novel &#038; Sqinks Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new novel, and a journal about writing it.\u00a0Published via my very own indie press,\u00a0 which is Transreal Books.<\/p>\n<p>I raised funds for it on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/rudyrucker\/sqinks\">Kickstarter<\/a> page&#8230;and I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/sqinks\/\"><em>Sqinks<\/em> book page<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of Novembler, I&#8217;ll be publishing <em>Sqinks<\/em> and <em>Sqinks Journal<\/em> in hardback, paperback, and ebook on all the usual book sites.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here&#8217;s a kinda funny promo \/ trailer video for the book that I made with the help of my friend Barb Ash.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yd7l4ZXGAu0?si=FF4ZRuhTfjmzQ3Eo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was fun doing the video, Barb got into it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sqinks<\/em>\u00a0is a visionary tale of aliens in today&#8217;s San Francisco. The sqinks. In some ways they&#8217;re like our new AIs. But in other ways, they&#8217;re a thing nobody&#8217;s ever seen. Nobody except Rudy. And, um, these aliens seem to have an interest in replacing human brains. \u00a0It&#8217;s a surreal rollercoaster, rich with ideas, scares, and laughs.<\/p>\n<p>The narrator is, in a way, me. The character is a seasoned SF author who&#8217;s\u00a0 writing a novel about the odd world he&#8217;s in. A touch of what I calls transrealism. Yes, it&#8217;s science-fiction, but, yes, it&#8217;s about our real world. And the lead woman character Carol Cee is pretty much my woman friend Barb Ash.<\/p>\n<p>Me being who I am, the novel is cyberpunk&#8212;2020s style, faster and funnier than \u00a0before. New mind tech, and new struggles for human freedom.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a love story. \u00a0A transreal cyberpunk love story.\u00a0It&#8217;ll make you laugh, and it&#8217;ll make you feel good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images11\/sqinkscopver-10a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new novel, and a journal about writing it.\u00a0Published via my very own indie press,\u00a0 which is Transreal Books. I raised funds for it on a Kickstarter page&#8230;and I have a Sqinks book page.. Towards the end of Novembler, I&#8217;ll be publishing Sqinks and Sqinks Journal in hardback, paperback, and ebook on all the usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14509"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14526,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions\/14526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}