{"id":449,"date":"2007-09-29T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/postsingular-is-published\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:02:12","slug":"postsingular-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/postsingular-is-published\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Postsingular<\/em> is Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/postsingularcover.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Starting Tuesday, October 2, 2007, you can get my new novel, <em>Postsingular<\/em>!  Why not order a copy on <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Postsingular-Rudy-Rucker\/dp\/0765317419\">Amazon<\/a> right now?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re waffling, read more about the book on my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/postsingular\">Postingular web page,<\/a> including reviews from <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em>, <em>Booklist<\/em>, and <em>Interzone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/sphinx2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s my seventeenth novel.  Life rolls on.  I started it in July, 2005, finished the main writing in September, 2006, with revisions and copy edits continuing till April, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/livecactus.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Looking at my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/pdf\/postsingularnotesposted.pdf\">notes for the book<\/a>, I find this summary of the goals I had for the book starting out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/gamepieces.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Come to terms with the ubiquitous presence of cell phones, cameras, and computers, increasingly connected into a seamless wireless web.\n<li>Delve into the notion of the technological Singularity likely to occur when the artificial intelligence of networks overtakes that of the human race.\n<li>Write an novel that can serve as a foundation for a series of novels.\n<li>Write something flashy and contemporary, somewhat in the old cyberpunk manner.\n<li>Call it <em>Postsingular<\/em>; that title\u2019s <em>mersh<\/em>, man &#8212; \u201cmersh\u201d\u009d being Bruce Sterling\u2019s word for \u201ccommercial.\u201d\u009d\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/hylobrush.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Tuesday, October 2, 2007, you can get my new novel, Postsingular! Why not order a copy on Amazon right now? If you\u2019re waffling, read more about the book on my Postingular web page, including reviews from Publisher&#8217;s Weekly, Booklist, and Interzone. It\u2019s my seventeenth novel. Life rolls on. I started it in July, 2005, [&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-449","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\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}