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<\/p>\nI took Feb 9 to March 3 off from the blog. I was in Micronesia for three weeks.<\/p>\n
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I'll start up a long and detailed series of Micronesia notes tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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My disk storage ran out while I was gone, which is why the site's began looking a little flaky. The inevitable bit-rot of digital storage media. But that's all fixed for now, thanks to the Head Monkey of Monkeybrains.<\/p>\n
In fixing it, I lost the most recent entry and the three comments on it, apologies to those three commenteers, do come back and post again.<\/p>\n
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The muxed entry said this:<\/p>\n
If you live near SF, keep in mind the Potlatch Panel<\/a> on Transrealism on March 5, 2:30 – 3:45.<\/p>\n Transrealism and the Ghost of Philip K. Dick, or, Everyday Life Is Science Fiction<\/p>\n A panel at Potlatch 14 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n Moderated by Rudy Rucker, with Charlie Anders, Terry Bisson, Michael Blumlein, Richard Kadrey, and John Shirley<\/p>\n One of the blurbs on Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly referred to the book as “transcendental autobiography.” Inspired by this, Rucker coined the name “transrealism” for the practice of writing about one's immediate perceptions in a fantastic or science-fictional way. Paraphrasing a remark by Robert Sheckley: “A writer's first problem is how to write. The second problem is how to write a story. And the third is how to write about himself or herself.” Questions to be discussed by the panel may include, “What are some interesting examples of transrealism? “How to I use transrealist methods in my own writing practice?” “Is transrealism a liberation or a limitation?” “Where does transrealism lie vis-a-vis the borders between mainstream literature and Fantasy\/SF?” “Does transrealism have an inherent political agenda?”<\/p>\n Date: Saturday afternoon, March 5, 2005 I took Feb 9 to March 3 off from the blog. I was in Micronesia for three weeks. I'll start up a long and detailed series of Micronesia notes tomorrow. *** My disk storage ran out while I was gone, which is why the site's began looking a little flaky. The inevitable bit-rot of digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","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\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Time: 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
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Venue: The seedily grand Ramada hotel on Market St. near the Civic Center.
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Con Website: http:\/\/www.potlatch-sf.org\/
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For background on transrealism see
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Rucker's 1983 essay: A Transrealist Manifesto<\/a> ,
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Ruckers' 2003 Readercon talk:Power Chords, Thought Experiments, Transrealism and Monomyths<\/a>
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Damien Broderick's book, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"