I’m just about done with my novel Turing & Burroughs that I’ve been working on for two years. I’ll be selling it through my Transreal Books site starting around September 22, 2012.

Right now you can read my book-length set of notes for the novel, “Notes for Turing & Burroughs,” it’s a free PDF online, it’s about 4 Meg, the length of a novel, profusely illustrated, a free download brought to you by Transreal Books.

This draft cover image is based on a painting I did around October 9, 2010, see my blog post about it: “Turing and the Skugs.”

Up until about a week ago I was calling the book, The Turing Chronicles, but, while doing my final revisions, I decided that Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel is a better fit.

I went ahead and changed history, by updating my many old blog posts on the novel to use the new name. You can get a comprehensive list of the posts with this blog search .

Here are a few of the posts, individually linked.

July 28, 2012. “Transrealism Interview With Leon Marvell,” Includes discussion of TURING & BURROUGHS.

July 16, 2011. Blog post on V-Bomb Blast painting.

July 9, 2011. “Finished 1st Draft of TURING & BURROUGHS.”

May 29, 2011. TURING & BURROUGHS Excerpt. “Bill/Joan Showdown.”

March 4, 2011. “A Skugger’s Point of View.” Painting for TURING & BURROUGHS.

November 9, 2010. “William Burroughs in Palm Beach”.

December 12, 2012. “Burroughs Letters from Tangier.” I modeled two chapters on these.

[Burroughs after his arrest for shooting his wife Joan in Mexico City. Photos found in James Grauerholz, “The Death of Joan Volmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?,” 2002. Joan’s ghost has it out with Bill in my novel.]

September 10, 2010. “What Was Alan Turing Really Like?” With excerpts of Alan Hodges’ bio.

July 7, 2010. “Turing and the Happy Cloak.” Birth of my “skug” concept.

For purposes of SF vitality, and as a kind of promotional move, I’ve decided to put a full copy of my Complete Stories online as a free HTML page. This isn’t a Creative Commons release, it’s a free sample. As before, Complete Stories is Copyright © 2012 Rudy Rucker as a volume, and the individual stories are copyrighted to their authors. If you like what you see, you can buy an ebook or a print version of Complete Stories via the links at Transreal Books.

This huge collection includes collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Paul Di Filippo, Marc Laidlaw, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker Jr., Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.

Just for fun, I’ll post the covers of my earlier story collections, along with the Asimov’s SF magazine covers that feature images of my stories—three of the Asimov’s covers are of tales I co-authored with the redoubtable Bruce Sterling, and one shows a cover of a surfing tale I wrote with Marc Laidlaw.

The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, SF stories, Ace Books 1983.

Transreal!, poems, SF stories and essays, WCS Books 1991.

Gnarl!, SF stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.

Mad Professor, SF stories, Thunder’s Mouth Press, January 2007.

Complete Stories, all my SF stories as a single ebook or as two print volumes, Transreal Books, 2012

The three Asimov’s covers with Bruce.

Tunguska was a reality-changing UFO—let Laika and the mushrooms show you.

Tweak your “Junk DNA” and become a master of reality.

Giant ants!

And here’s my cover with Marc.

All of reality becomes one perfect wave.

Not to mention the further strange tales by me and my collaborators. Rude boy says check it out.

Back in June, my wife and I splurged and went to the Michelin two-star restaurant Manresa in Los Gatos for a “seasonal and spontaneous” dinner for two that cost in the neighborhood of $400. More expensive than I’d expected, but there we were, so we went for it.

I don’t like to be one of those people that annoyingly flashes their camera in a restaurant, or even someone who’s photographing his food without a flash. So today’s photos are still from our road trip out west.

[Tufa at Mono Lake near Lee Vining, California.]

In any case, I did make a note of each of the fifteen (!) servings we got. Here they are, with two minor complaints.

1. Black olive madeline with a cube of red pepper jelly
2. Abalone in aspic on panna cotta
3. Crisped kale with goat-cheese beignet
4. Lightly cooked egg in shell with cream and maple syrup
5. Veal tartare with shaved tuna
6. Courgette, pistachio and nasturtium blossoms with cream

[“Miners lettuce” near Green River Lake in Wyoming.]

7. “Into the garden” salad
8. Mediterranean fish soup with lobster and saffron
9. Japanese sea bream (not impeccably fresh)
10. Slice of chicken breast and raw egg in a hot seaweed-chicken broth
11. Lightly braised lamb with cucumber (some of the lamb was tough and raw)
12. Raspberries and ice-cream
13. Banana cake and frozen chocolate mousse
14. Pistachio parfait with cherries in wine
15. Chocolate madeline with a cube of strawberry jelly

[A rocky slope against the sky at New Fork Lake, near Pinedale, Wyoming.]

All in all it was a great experience, more like theater than like a meal, really. Tiny exquisite dishes that focused your senses. It took three hours. The dining space is very pleasant. And the servers timed it so our two plates would come out at the same time, with two servers carrying them, the plates touching our table at the same instant.

[“Bell bottom” horse hooves at the Rendezvous parade in Pinedale, Wyoming.]

I hope to go to Manresa again…in a few years. Or sooner, if a proverbial visiting movie producer wants to pick up the tab.