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
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. – Rudy Rucker
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I’m still absorbing its teachings. – Rudy Rucker
But how does it feel to plug into a system that’s say, a million times as smart as a person. – Rudy Rucker
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
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
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. – Rudy Rucker
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. – Rudy Rucker
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
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
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. – Rudy Rucker
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
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
