{"id":284,"date":"2005-01-28T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-03-22T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T14:56:55","slug":"transrealism-in-action-mirror-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/transrealism-in-action-mirror-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Transrealism in Action: Mirror-Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jennifer Saylor for emailing in to tell me that the plant depicted yesterday was a red-hot poker plant <\/a>, (Latin name kniphofia uvaria<\/i>).<\/p>\n

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[Painting by Paul Mavrides<\/a>, Victors<\/i>, about 36″ by 24″, acrylic on black velvet.]<\/p>\n

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Here's an example of transrealism in action. A note from my journals, followed by a scene from my novel in progress. The world is SF.<\/p>\n

=====Journal Note, Creatures in a Mirror, November 16, 2004.<\/i>=====<\/p>\n

At the SF international air terminal, about to fly to Milano to give a talk, I’m waiting for them to print my ticket, staring absently at this clear space behind the ticket counter, assuming it’s a mirror, and then I realize it’s open air, and that I’m staring into the far distance, this terminal is huge.<\/p>\n

And then I get the idea of looking into a real mirror and seeing beings in the distance that aren’t there in your real world. The alien cockroach mathematicians.<\/p>\n

=====Draft scene for my novel <\/i>Mathematicians In Love, January 27, 2005.<\/i>=====<\/p>\n

I looked in the mirror on the wall above my dresser — grinning with an open mouth, hungry for the next rush. In the mirror’s recesses, I saw the image of my open window and the reflected tiny view of Haste Street with the eternal Berkeley freaks truckin’ on down the line. I noticed a couple of characters with heads like the buds on a fractal Mandelbrot set. Heads with waving antennae, bodies with smooth glistening backs and an extra set of arms. My visitors! Half-human cockroaches walking on two legs.<\/p>\n

I turned towards the window, oddly calm, rocking my guitar, fire-hosing feedback from my amp. I couldn’t see the cockroach-men outside in the plain light of day, no. They were only visible in the mirror’s dark glass. Fine.<\/p>\n

I went back to my mirror and watched the visitors scurry across the mirror-street, climb the mirror-wall of mirror-Rochdale, wriggle in through my mirror-window and stand in my mirror-room. I could hear them twittering behind my mirror’s glass. I peered in at them, oddly unafraid, still playing my guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jennifer Saylor for emailing in to tell me that the plant depicted yesterday was a red-hot poker plant , (Latin name kniphofia uvaria). *** [Painting by Paul Mavrides, Victors, about 36″ by 24″, acrylic on black velvet.] *** Here's an example of transrealism in action. A note from my journals, followed by a […]<\/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-284","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\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}