{"product_id":"9781940948072","title":"Journals: 1990 - 2014","description":"Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker-author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer's journey.\u003cp\u003eRucker composed \u003cem\u003eJournals 1990-2014 \u003c\/em\u003eover twenty-five years. The finished volume is as long as three or four novels combined. A long-running adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author's introduction:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My \u003cem\u003eJournals \u003c\/em\u003econtain a variety of elements:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIntrospection and philosophizing\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eJournalism\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTravel\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWriting notes\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Rucker's memoir \u003cem\u003eNested Scrolls\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Immensely entertaining, spirited and deep. Rudy Rucker at his thoughtful best.\" - \u003cem\u003eGreg Bear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pleasantly meandering, chattily digressive read. We hear the authentic voice of the beat, the hippie, the cyberpunk, the hacker the revolutionary iconoclast.\" - \u003cem\u003eLocus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" - \u003cem\u003eBooklist \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transreal Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039789695216,"sku":"9781940948072","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940948072_p0.jpg?v=1763755351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940948072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}