{"id":505,"date":"2008-04-16T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/the-sex-sphere-etc\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:38:48","slug":"the-sex-sphere-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/the-sex-sphere-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sex Sphere, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

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After much dithering<\/a>, I\u2019m on the point of inking a deal to get Spacetime Donuts <\/em>and The Sex Sphere <\/em>out as print on demand (POD) books this summer.<\/p>\n

I finished a cover painting for The Sex Sphere <\/em>last week. That\u2019s an a-bomb explosion in the background. The novel is about nuclear terrorism and a being from the fourth dimension, you understand…<\/p>\n

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We were in San Francisco for Live Worms art show this weekend. It was nice to see the gang from our painting workshop in Caunes <\/a>last summer.<\/p>\n

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I stopped by City Lights Books of course, and saw my college roommate Greg Gibson\u2019s new book Hubert\u2019s Freaks <\/a><\/em>on display. I really like this book; Greg\u2019s a great story-teller, and there\u2019s some interesting controversy <\/a>surrounding the book.<\/p>\n

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A reader with the handle \u201cWendyMeat\u201d\u009d sent me a link to a New Scientist article<\/a> about non-conventional computer hardware. It mentions some of the ideas I’ve written about as possible computers in my SF: the molecules in a glass of water (Mathematicians in Love<\/a><\/em>), Belusov-Zhabotinsky scrolls in an excitable medium (Postsingular<\/a><\/em>), waves on water (\u201cThe Perfect Wave<\/a>\u201d\u009d), and slime mold (Freeware<\/a><\/em>). So where\u2019s my MacArthur prize, awready?<\/p>\n


\n[Jack Kerouac alley in the light of morn.]<\/p>\n

I dug out a quote relevant to my ruminations on death in my \u201cThe Problem of Death\u201d\u009d post<\/a>. In Gravity\u2019s Rainbow <\/em>(Penguin edition, 2000, p. 761), Thomas Pynchon imagines \u201csome angel stationed very high watching [our lives], being carried on under a sentence of death whose deep beauty the angel has never been close to…\u201d\u009d <\/p>\n

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[A mock Moon Mullins strip that\u2019s part of a mural inside Coit Tower.]<\/p>\n

I contributed to John DeNardo\u2019s SF blog, SF Signal<\/em><\/a> for a \u201cMind Meld\u201d\u009d feature with writers commenting on the markets for SF stories.<\/p>\n

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Rick Kleffel posted the entire (short) interview that he excerpted for his short NPR piece about fears that the Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth. I added the link to Rudy Rucker Podcasts; click the button below to access the MP3 audio file.<\/p>\n

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While I was writing this post, I happened to get a phone call from fellow SF writer George Zebrowski, entertainingly ranting about the crookedness of publishers vis-a-vis their authors. See his essay (and links): \u201cWe Are Not Alone.\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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