{"id":3932,"date":"2012-04-16T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2012-04-16T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:27:04","slug":"collected-essays-at-transreal-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/collected-essays-at-transreal-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Collected Essays, at Transreal Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Transreal Books title goes live today!<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/collectedessaysbookcover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now selling for $4.95.  Go to the  <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\">Transreal Books <\/a>  page to buy the book from Amazon or to buy the Epub or Mobi (for Kindle) files <em>directly <\/em>from Transreal Books.  Barnes &#038; Noble link coming soon.  Book will eventually be in the iBook store as well.<\/p>\n<p> <em>Collected Essays<\/em> includes the nonfiction pieces from my two earlier collections, <em>Transreal! <\/em>(1991) and <em>Seek!<\/em> (1999). And many, many newer essays have been added as well.  How to write, history of Silicon Valley, semi-technical articles on graphics, the philosophy of computer science, travel notes, off-beat memoirs\u2014it\u2019s all here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Collected Essays <\/em>weighs in at  twice the length of an ordinary book, with sixty articles and about a hundred illustrations, many in color.<\/p>\n<p> The essays fall into seven parts: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/sf_diagram.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(1) \u201cThe Art of Writing.\u201d\u009d Manifestos and talks about writing science-fiction. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/rufab.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(2) \u201cSilicon Valley.\u201d\u009d Cool scenes Rucker witnessed as he rode the Silicon Valley computer wave for over twenty years, starting in 1986.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/MandelCubicCPlaneOgre.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(3) \u201cWeird Screens.\u201d\u009d Graphical programs that have obsessed Rucker\u2014cellular automata, artificial life, fractals, space curves, and virtual reality. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/rucker_1992_mondocrew_B1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(4) \u201cFuturology.\u201d\u009d Playful raps and speculations about the coming times. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/rucker_2005_wolfram_color.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(5) \u201cThe Philosophy of Computation.\u201d\u009d Digital immortality, artificial intelligence, and the birth of a universal mind. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/bruegel_peasant_dance.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(6) \u201cPersonal Stories.\u201d\u009d Tall tales and reminscences of strange times. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/rucker_1986_sheckley_B1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(7) \u201cMentors.\u201d\u009d Appreciations of the great minds and wild freaks who led Rucker along his path: Kurt G&ouml;del, Martin Gardner, Robert Scheckley, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ivan Stang and Stephen Wolfram.<\/p>\n<p>Go get it at <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\">Transreal Books <\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Transreal Books title goes live today! Now selling for $4.95. Go to the Transreal Books page to buy the book from Amazon or to buy the Epub or Mobi (for Kindle) files directly from Transreal Books. Barnes &#038; Noble link coming soon. Book will eventually be in the iBook store as well. 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