“I got my first copy of Be Not Content in 1972, shortly after taking a job as an assistant professor at a small college in upstate New York,” writes cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker, who’s reissuing Billy Craddock’s opus. “I quickly began to idolize Craddock. I had my own memories of the psychedelic revolution, and when reading Be Not Content I felt—’Yes. This is the way it was. This guy got it right.’”
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Fiction: Jim and The Flims
In his newest novel, Jim and The Flims, cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker takes a detour to a bizarrely imagined afterlife—via the North Coast of Santa Cruz. Reprinted here is Chapter 1, “Four Mile Beach.”