Rudy Rucker Podcasts

December 29, 2015. Bruce Sterling reads our joint story “Loco.” An engaging and florid performance. When the story appeared on Tor.com in 2012, Cory Doctorow termed it “the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever read that managed to still make sense.” Press the arrow below to play “Loco” right now! “Loco” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a […]

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December 14, 2015. This week I recorded a reading of “Kraken and Sage,” a brand new, never-before-published story by me and Bruce Sterling. The podcast is about forty-five minutes long. It could be our best joint story ever. It’s about… well, it’s about Bruce and me, but it’s also about runaway biotech and our world’s […]

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December 7, 2015. This week I recorded and produced a reading of “Hormiga Canyon,” a story about giant ants, written by Bruce Sterling and me in 2007. The podcast is about an hour and a half long. It turned out to be quite a bit of work to perform, edit, and produce it—and certainly it […]

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August 11, 2015. Interviewed by author Doug Lain for his podcast Zero Squared. We mostly talked about what it’s like to have a career as a writer, with some mentions of my recent Journals 1990-2014. An edited version of the interview appeared as part of an episode on Lain’s podcast Zero Squared, with better sound […]

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June 28, 2015. At “Beatnik Shindig” event at Fort Mason in SF. I said a few words in praise of V. Vale and Marian Wallace. Then talked on TURING & BURROUGHS, and did Q&A. Sound is pretty good. 20 minutes in all. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

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June 13, 2015. At Borderlands Books. I read about six passages from Journals 1990-2014, about 45 minutes, including long Q & A. Some passages read are the same as in Santa Cruz Podcast #84, but most are different. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

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May 1, 2015. Event in Santa Cruz, sponsored by Scott Clements of LOGOS Books. The tape includes part of an introduction by Scott’s partner Andrew, the organizer of the “Santa Cruz College” lecture series. I read about six passages from my Journals 1990-2014, and then we did Q&A. Good sound quality and a lively, responsive […]

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March 24, 2015. Interviewed by Robin Ince for a BBC Channel 4 broadcast on the theme of the Hollow Earth. Tape made in my home by Mark Mollineaux. Doesn’t include Robin Ince’s prompts, just my statements about history of the Hollow Earth concept and about my novel The Hollow Earth. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

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October 18, 2014. Story read by Rucker at the Lit Crawl 2014 event Dark Lords of Cyberpunk. “The Attack of the Giant Ants” was inspired by the classic B movie THEM. Story appeared in the Motherboard webzine Terraform. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

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June 11, 2014. Rucker reads his short SF story, “Laser Shades,” written for Robert Shults’s photo book THE SUPERLATIVE LIGHT, which contains photos of the Austin, Texas, Petawatt Laser Lab. Taped in Rucker’s home studio, good sound. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

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