Sept 22, 2012. A mashup of my essay “Haunted by Phil Dick” and the afterword of my WARES TETRALOGY—discussing my imaginings of PKD and my Dick Award events. Delivered to lively audience at the Philip K. Dick Festival at San Francisco State University, organized by David Gill. In Q&A I I talk about my new novel TURING & BURROUGHS. Recording made by Kitty Gainer of Filmhaus Video in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Thanks, Kitty!

Aug 29, 2012. Rucker’s talk at the Gloucester Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass. With an introduction by Gregory Gibson. Topics are transreal SF and beatnik writing, particularly that of William Burroughs. A reading from TURING & BURROUGHS, followed by Q&A touching on Burroughs’s cut-up technique and on contrasts between fantasy vs. SF.

July 27, 2012. In conversation with Australian scholar Leon Marvell in my back yard. Topics: TURING & BURROUGHS, Beat literature, self-publishing, transrealism.

March 31, 2012. With Terry Bisson and John Shirley at the Anarchist Book Fair, San Francisco. Talking about anarchy in science fiction and in reality and whether SFictional events can free the world. Some Q&A.