Journals: 1990 - 2014

Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker—author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer’s journey.

Rucker composed Journals 1990-2014 over twenty-five years. The finished volume is as long as three or four novels combined. A long-running adventure.

From the author’s introduction:

“My Journals contain a variety of elements:

“Introspection and philosophizing: I turn to my journals when I’m undergoing a personal crisis—I find it calming to write what’s on my mind. And I'm always looking for an easy path to enlightenment.

“Journalism: I like to describe the things that I see going on in the daily world around me. I’ve always enjoyed Jack Kerouac’s practice of using words to sketch a scene around me in real time.

“Travel: I’m particularly likely to work on my journals when I’m on the road or on a day-trip. I have many series of entries set in San Francisco, the Wild West, New York, Mexico, the Caribbean, Japan, the South Pacific, and various countries in Europe.

“Writing notes: As a transrealist, I like seeing the world in terms of science-fiction, casting daily events as ideas for my books. It's hard to keep writing year after year, and sometimes in my notes I'm encouraging myself to keep at it.”

Praise for Rucker’s memoir Nested Scrolls:

“Immensely entertaining, spirited and deep. Rudy Rucker at his thoughtful best.” — Greg Bear

“Pleasantly meandering, chattily digressive read. We hear the authentic voice of the beat, the hippie, the cyberpunk, the hacker the revolutionary iconoclast.” — Locus

“Rucker knew from an early age that he wanted to be a beatnik writer. It makes for a fascinating story, and reads like Rucker’s novels, packed with adventures, filled with humor, and often quite surreal.” — Booklist