{"id":471,"date":"2007-11-25T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/the-perfect-wave\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:15:13","slug":"the-perfect-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/the-perfect-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Perfect Wave&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/perfectwavecover.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Perfect Wave\u201d\u009d by Marc Laidlaw and me is the cover story of the January, 2008, issue of <em><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0801\/tableofcontents.shtml\"> Asimov\u2019s SF <\/a><\/em> magazine.  <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m stoked; this is my second <em>Asimov\u2019s <\/em>cover in six months, as Bruce Sterling and I scored for <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/hormiga-canyon-is-out\/\">\u201cHormiga Canyon\u201d\u009d <\/a>in August, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/hormigacover.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marc knows the &#8220;Perfect Wave&#8221; cover artist, Jeremy Bennett, and has a bit about him on the <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/marclaidlaw.com\/?p=124\">Laidlaw blog<\/a> site, also a link to a big picture of the cover painting uncropped and unobscured by textual information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/makequadwave.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The weird waves in our story were inspired by some nonlinear waves that I discovered in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/capow\/examples.html\" target=\"blank\">CAPOW <\/a>software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Perfect Wave\u201d\u009d by Marc Laidlaw and me is the cover story of the January, 2008, issue of Asimov\u2019s SF magazine. I\u2019m stoked; this is my second Asimov\u2019s cover in six months, as Bruce Sterling and I scored for \u201cHormiga Canyon\u201d\u009d in August, 2007. Marc knows the &#8220;Perfect Wave&#8221; cover artist, Jeremy Bennett, and has [&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-471","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\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}