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Read an Excerpt. Table of Contents. Title Page. Copyright Page. Acknowledgements CH:01. CH:02. CH:03. CH:04. CH:05. CH:06. CH:07. CH:08. CH:09. CH:10. CH:11. CH:12. CH:13. CH:14 Historical Note. Robert A. Heinlein “Troopers. SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia : (1907-1988) US writer, educated at the University of Missouri and the US Naval Academy, Annapolis. After serving as a naval officer for five years, he retired due to ill-health in 1934.
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Introduction. Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Enlightenment Rabies. Schrödinger’s Cat. Sufferin’ Succotash. A New Golden Age.
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- Introduction. I’ve arranged my stories in the order in which they were composed. On the whole, the later stories are better than the earlier ones, so you might do well to start reading somewhere towards the middle of this.
- The poor man's way of landing on a planet with an atmosphere is by utilizing aerobraking and aerocapture. Pretty much all of NASA's manned rockets use this method. What you do is equip your spacecraft with a streamlined heat.
Faraway Eyes. The 5. Franz Kafka. The Indian Rope Trick Explained. A New Experiment With Time. The Man Who Ate Himself.
Tales of Houdini. The Facts of Life. Buzz. The Last Einstein- Rosen Bridge. Pac- Man. Pi in the Sky. Wishloop. Inertia. Bringing in the Sheaves. The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics.
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland. Plastic Letters. Monument to the Third International. Rapture in Space. Storming the Cosmos (Written with Bruce Sterling)In Frozen Time. Soft Death. Inside Out. Instability (Written with Paul Di Filippo)The Man Who Was a Cosmic String. Probability Pipeline (Written with Marc Laidlaw)As Above, So Below.
Chaos Surfari (Written with Marc Laidlaw)Big Jelly (Written with Bruce Sterling)Easy As Pie. The Andy Warhol Sandcandle (Written with Marc Laidlaw)Cobb Wakes Up. The Square Root of Pythagoras (Written with Paul Di Filippo)Pockets (Written with John Shirley)Junk DNA (Written with Bruce Sterling)The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane.
Jenna and Me (Written with Rudy Rucker Jr.)Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation. MS Found in a Minidrive. Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch. The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club.
Panpsychism Proved. Elves of the Subdimensions (Written with Paul Di Filippo)2+2=5 (Written with Terry Bisson)Visions of the Metanovel. The Third Bomb. The Imitation Game. Hormiga Canyon (Written with Bruce Sterling)The Perfect Wave (Written with Marc Laidlaw)Tangier Routines. Message Found In A Gravity Wave.
Qlone. Colliding Branes (Written with Bruce Sterling)Jack and the Aktuals or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory. All Hangy (Written with John Shirley)To See Infinity Bare (Written with Paul Di Filippo)Bad Ideas.
Good Night, Moon (Written with Bruce Sterling)Fjaerland (Written with Paul Di. Filippo)The Fnoor Hen.
Hive Mind Man (Written with Eileen Gunn)My Office Mate. Yubba Vines (Writen with Paul Di Filippo)Loco (Written with Bruce Sterling)I Arise Again. Apricot Lane. Where the Lost Things Are. Written with Terry Bisson) Laser Shades. Attack of the Giant Ants. Water Girl. (Written with Marc Laidlaw) Introduction. I’ve arranged my stories in the order in which they were composed.
On the whole, the later stories are better than the earlier ones, so you might do well to start reading somewhere towards the middle of this collection. Like many professions, writing is something one learns on the job. Over the years I’ve published four print anthologies of my stories: The 5. Franz Kafka (Ace Books, 1. Transreal! (WCS Books, 1. Gnarl! (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2. Mad Professor (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2.
The final nineteen stories appearing in this, my new anthology, haven’t appeared in any of those four print anthologies. At this point in my career, I thought it would be futuristic to abandon print and to have my story anthology take on the form of an ebook, published by my own Transreal Press. The big win is that, given that I’m working with an ebook, I can make make my new anthology comprehensive. Thus: Complete Stories. I first assembled this collection in 2.
I expect to write a few more stories in the coming years. As time runs on, I’ll continue making new editions of my Complete Stories. Walt Whitman spent his whole life revising and expanding one single book of poetry: Leaves of Grass. Complete Stories is in some sense my final anthology. Flipping through these tales, I feel a mixture of nostalgia, pride, and embarrassment. I used to write as if women were wonderful, fascinating aliens—over the years I’ve gotten better at depicting them as people.
Intoxication has remained a years- long literary obsession. My politics remain those of the hippies, punks, and grungers. But always the stories have their own wild humor and logic. I can characterize my fiction with in terms of six concepts: (1) Thought experiments, (2) Power- chords, (3) Gnarliness, (4) Wit, (5) Transrealism, and (6) Collaboration.(1) The notion of fictional thought experiments was made popular by Albert Einstein, who fueled his science speculations with so- called Gedankenexperimenten.
Thought experiments are a very powerful technique of philosophical investigation. In practice, it’s intractably difficult to visualize the side effects of new technological developments. In order to tease out the subtler consequences of current trends, a complex fictional simulation is necessary; inspired narration is a more powerful tool than logical analysis. If I want to imagine, for instance, what our world would be like if ordinary objects were conscious, then the best way to make progress is to fictionally simulate a person discovering this.
The kinds of thought experiments I enjoy are different in intent and in execution from merely futurological investigations. My primary goal is not to make useful predictions that businessmen can use. I’m more interested in exploring the human condition, with literary power chord standing in for archetypal psychic forces.(2) When I speak of power chords in the context of fantastic literature, I’m talking about certain classic tropes that have the visceral punch of heavy musical riffs: blaster guns, spaceships, time machines, aliens, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, faster- than- light travel, immersive virtual reality, clones, robots, teleportation, alien- controlled pod people, endless shrinking, the shattering of planet Earth, intelligent goo, antigravity, starships, ecodisaster, pleasure- center zappers, alternate universes, nanomachines, mind viruses, higher dimensions, a cosmic computation that generates our reality, and, of course, the attack of the giant ants. When I use a power chord, I try to do something fresh with the trope, perhaps placing it into an unfamiliar context, perhaps describing it more intensely than usual, or perhaps using it for a novel thought experiment. I like it when my material takes on a life of its own. This leads to what I call the gnarly zone.(3) In short, a gnarly process is complex and unpredictable without being random.
If a story hews to some very familiar pattern, it feels stale. But if absolutely anything can happen, a story becomes as unengaging as someone else’s dream. The gnarly zone is lies at the interface between logic and fantasy. I see my tales as simulated worlds in which the characters and tropes and social situations bounce off each other like eddies in a turbulent wake, like gliders in a cellular automaton graphic, like vines twisting around each other in a jungle. When I write, I like to be surprised.(4) My early mentor Robert Sheckley was a supremely witty writer.
Over the years I got to spend a few golden hours in Sheckley’s presence. And I think it’s safe to say that wit, rather than mere humor, was his primary goal. Wit involves describing the world as it actually is. You experience a release of tension when you notice a glitch. Something was off- kilter, and now you see what it was.
The elephant in the living room has been named. The evil spirit has been incanted.
Perceiving an incongruity in our supposedly smooth- running society provokes a shock of recognition and a concomitant burst of laughter. Wit is a critical- satirical process that can be more serious than the “humorous” label suggests.(5) “Transrealism” is a word that I made up. Early on, I found that using myself and my friends as characters in my science- fiction tales appeals to me very much. My actual life is the real part, and the trans part are the cool things that happen to the characters in my science- fiction stories.
In other words, I found that I could use the special effects and power chords of SF as a way to thicken and intensify my material. The tools of science fiction can be a way to add a more artistic shape to the suppressed fears and desires that you inevitably incorporate into your fiction. To my way of thinking, transrealism is a way to describe not only immediate reality, but also the higher reality in which life is embedded.(6) Regarding collaboration, note that nearly a third of the pieces in Complete Stories were written with other authors. As a practical matter, I get lonely being a writer on my own, and I welcome the chance to get into a collaborative exchange with another writer. One of the remarkable things about science- fiction writing is the level of literary collaboration that it supports. In this respect, we’re like scientists—and like musicians. Science fiction is a shared enterprise.
And I’m grateful to be part of it.—Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California, 2. Table of Contents. Shop for ebook or print version of Complete Stories. Jumpin’ Jack Flash. It was a hell of a lecture. Out of Your Mindscape,” Jack had called it on the posters he’d put up all over town.
The posters had a picture of a guy thinking a thought balloon of himself thinking a thought balloon of himself thinking etcetera and ad infinitum. Jack Flash was wild about infinite regresses that term. I never could see the use of them myself. So my mind has an image of my mind which has an image of my mind and so on. So what. To me the fact that my mind is infinite is about as significant as the fact that human bodies have ten toes. Big Mind doesn’t have anything to do with the finite- infinite distinction.