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Rudy Rucker
American
Scientist
About the author
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Selling
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Fact
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Science
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#World
#Evil
#Nation
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Now
#Wonder
#Being
#Science
#Writer
#Fiction
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Thought
#Science
#Fiction
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Work
#World
#Science
#Writers
#Fiction
#Rules
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Play
#Science
#Ideas
#Fiction
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Money
#Publishing
#Strategy
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#End
#Being
#Obvious
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Mind
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Science
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Life
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Study
#Science
#Effect
#Computer
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Books
#Present
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Living
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Writers
#Beginning
#Advice
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist
#Rules
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker,
American
Scientist