Better Worlds

Description

This is the March, 2025 revision of BETTER WORLDS. It replaces all earlier editions. Two hundred and seventy-six bright, fantastical paintings by cyberpunk master Rudy Rucker, some realistic, and some abstract. Includes detailed comments on the background and creation of the individual works. Rucker took up painting twenty-six years ago, when he was writing a novel about the old master, Peter Bruegel. Rucker calls himself a transreal SF writer, meaning that his novels tend to be inspired by events in his life---transmuted into SF of surpassing strangeness. The same holds for his paintings, inspired by his experiences and his visions. And he's not above painting aliens and saucers now and then. You might call his work pop surrealism. For more info, see www.rudyrucker.com/paintings