Surfers at the End of Time, by Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw

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★★☆☆☆

(SF Surfer Humor; Delbert & Zep) Zep invents a board that can surf through time, and he and Del have an excellent adventure. (19,680 words; Time: 1h:05m)

Recommended By: 👍STomaino+1 (Q&A)

Although there are many other Delbert and Zep stories, there’s no need to read the earlier ones before reading this one.

Emojis, by Rudy Rucker

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★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

(Near-Future SF) Scottie tests out some augmented-reality emoticons his company has developed which help people interpret what other people are really thinking. They don’t work quite as expected though. (2,942 words; Time: 09m)

In the Lost City of Leng, by Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo

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(Lovecraft Pastiche) In 1933, Doug quits his job to go on an expedition to Antarctica to kill the Great Shoggoth and retrieve the priceless treasures of the lost city of Leng. (21,373 words; Time: 1h:11m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ A Very Different Twist on Lovecraft’s Story

Although this story revisits the site of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” the tone is much closer to humor than to horror

@lantis, by Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw

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(SF Surfer Humor; Delbert & Zep) A high-tech billionaire schemes to steal magic bubbles from Atlantis but surfers Del and Zep get in the way. (11,496 words; Time: 38m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Add one star if you're looking for a good laugh.

Totem Poles, by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling

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(SF Humor) Space aliens have invaded, but they're repairing the world--not destroying it--and not everyone is happy with that. (4,487 words)

Rating: 3, Funny but Strange

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The Knobby Giraffe, by Rudy Rucker

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(Hard SF) Irit wants to do her Ph.D. thesis on quantum physics and the mind. She lost her girlfriend four months ago, but she thinks there may be a way to change reality. (3,383 words; Time: 11m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Recommended By: RHorton:4

Watergirl, by Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw

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(SF Surfer Humor; Delbert & Zep) Del and his friend Zep are near-future surf bums living in Hawaii. Zep finds them work with a wealthy developer using nanotechnology to create programmable waves. (12,000 words; Time: 40m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

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Petroglyph Man, by Rudy Rucker

Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2015; ~5,500 words
Rating: 3, ordinary, good story  Recommended By:  Locus

Julio, a young man visiting Hawaii with his wife, explores his company's technology that modifies photos based on the user's thoughts.

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A fun read with a happy ending. Julio really does sound like he wants to love his wife--although its not entirely clear why.

We don't really ever get a good idea of why the petroglyphs came alive or what the petroglyph man was trying to do there at the end.