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more about #rudyrucker Bootknife-Jackson: Brad Meltzer's comments remind me of a conversation i had with my editor earlier today (he's currently going over a new story of mine) he told me "it'... more » 8one6: I had to stop writing in the middle of an action scene in order to go back and give my main character a better motivation than "Just because." My NaNo... more » Faustroll: Yep. My Nanowrimo book went off the rails pretty early. But! Having spent the last week revising the concept, I have a starting point for a much bette... more » geekitude: My current novel took a wrong turn recently. There's no way to scrap it - it has to evolve. I keep a log on the side and bracket notes in the manuscri... more » Westender: There have been times I've just kept writing, even though I've known I was off track. Otherwise I'd just have to admit that I didn't know where I was... more » Lamar Henderson: A friend of mine, who is a generally better and more literary writer than I am, has the philosophy that the writer doesn't really have any idea what t... more » Grey_Area: Note to self: tweak more nozzles. #books more » CSX321: I found it interesting reading The History of Middle Earth volumes and seeing how the story evolved. There were things that Tolkien knew no longer fit... more » gorehound: I own that issue of Astounding Stories in my pulp library. #books more » DisturbingClown: My friend gave me some good advice for writing in general that has helped me in my NaNoing. If you need to change something but for whatever reason n... more » Belabras: I was really hoping Greg Keyes would provide a quote. Born Queen was so far off the rails it didn't even resemble the rest of the series. #books more » Brodka: regrettably: Stick me in one of these and let an annoying side-kick carry me around. more » van_line: No Robot Man from the Doom Patrol?? what about just a brain (The Brain) in a jar with his talking ape (Monsieur Mallah)?? Maybe one of the greatest ... more » AshThePirate: Briareos anyone? more » thexpert is no ones lapdog: Are these really better in any way than the evil plan of IG-88 to download himself into the deathstar? Imagine actually BEING Darth Vader's HOUSE! He ... more » TonyRockyHorror: Takeshi Kavacs more » Blank-Mage: Ghost in the Shell must be mentioned. The masses demand it! more » Terrorsaur - Five Six: You guys are so unoriginal. I would put my brain in a fucking cookie jar. more » MargaretMoony: You know, I really want to read Skinned. more » Pessimippöpötåmus: What, no Fortress Maximus? (The bigass thing in the background) more » -
#freeadvice
What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?
Novel-writing is like an interstellar voyage: disorienting and lengthy. Go off course, and it can be nigh-impossible to backtrack. What do you do when your novel's taken a wrong turn? Scott Westerfeld, Brad Meltzer, Cherie Priest and Rudy Rucker explain.
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#robobodies
10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
You can't be beautiful and immortal until you abandon your meatsack! Surrogates, opening Friday, shows a culture that's gone over to robot avatars. But here are ten other universes where you could abandon your flesh for a shiny, perfect robo-body. More » -
#unfilmablebooks
Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?
Hollywood has taken everything, from your childhood toys to the novels that haunted your dreams, and turned them into splashy vehicles for young Scientologists to gallop through. Are there any books that Hollywood absolutely can't turn into movies? Or shouldn't? More » -
#bookreview
Rudy Rucker's Hylozoic: Even Weirder Than His Last Book
Rudy Rucker pushed the boundaries of how much weirdness you could fit into one science-fiction novel, with last year's Postsingular. But the sequel, Hylozoic, goes much further into the realms of the twisted, the disturbing and the post-everything. Warning: spoilers! More » -
#writing
From The Page To The Canvas: SF Writers Make Art
It used to be, everyone who wrote science fiction was a scientist, or full-time scribbler. But now, authors like Audrey Niffenegger, Rudy Rucker and Mary Robinette Kowal also make art. We talked art/SF with them. More » -
#forgreatjustice
Cory Doctorow Headlines Geek Reading to Support EFF This Monday in San Francisco
Join scifi greats Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, with io9 editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, in San Francisco Monday night at a benefit for high tech civil liberties organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. More » -
