{"id":22,"date":"2006-12-14T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-12-14T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T17:42:15","slug":"three-new-books-new-zealand-part-5-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/three-new-books-new-zealand-part-5-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Three New Books! New Zealand, Part 5: Goodbye."},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I got home, I found three<\/i> new volumes by me out! Just in time for Christmas shopping, so here’s some Amazon links.<\/p>\n

The Hollow Earth<\/i><\/a> on the left, a new edition of my historical SF novel. (The Amazon link showed the wrong graphic for the cover lately.)<\/p>\n

A collection of my recent stories, Mad Professor<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, on the right, my latest SF novel, Mathematicians in Love<\/i><\/a>, which I wrote so much about on this blog<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

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It’s bittersweet to be back from New Zealand. I miss the friendly people and the informal vibe.<\/p>\n

Thanks, by the way, to all the kiwis who sent in comments on my recent New Zealand blog entries. There's still so much I want to see there: Coromandel, Nelson, the Southern Alps, Dunedin and Invercargill. I hope we get back there again one of these days. Like I say, I already miss it.<\/p>\n

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The weirdness of the ferny jungle, complete with mysterioso shrines!<\/p>\n

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The uncrowded, pristine coast.<\/p>\n

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My friend Trim Pork the pig.<\/p>\n

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The giant tree-ferns.<\/p>\n

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You look forward to something for a long time, and then you do it, and then it’s over. Somehow the transition always feels a bit surprising.<\/p>\n

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We do have some nature here, of course. It’s just that, at least in the Bay Area, there’s usually a six-lane freeway somewhere within earshot. I went walking with my friend Jon Pearce in Santa Cruz soon after coming back.<\/p>\n

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Out of habit, I was seeing our plant through tourist eyes, and indeed our oaks and redwoods are pretty gnarly. Only nature picture I seem to have brought back from this particular walk, though is a hole in the ground showing a subterranean stream which possibly leads through the Hollow Earth back , sob, to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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Downtown in Santa Cruz was some weirdness. People were waiting in a line three blocks long so that their children could spend ten minutes per group in a fenced-in enclosure of — snow. Obviously the thing to do with the snow is to make little snowballs, but in our customary US hypocritical cover-your-butt-from-liability fashion, the sponsors of the event had to have a sign saying NO SNOWBALL THROWING ALLOWED.<\/p>\n

Back in the USSR, where everyone is a criminal, all of the time…<\/p>\n

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