Banged out another page of the gnostic science fiction story, which remains untitled, over a hot chocolate in that coffee shop on the bad side of the street, before hopping on a bus to come to work. I have a better idea of what's going on, but it's a very uneven first draft because I have to figure out the mechanics of things. The diction's a little all-over-the-place but that might end up being a necessary effect of the characters.
Rudy Rucker's Mathematicians in Love is pretty good so far, although I'm still not sure how I feel about Bela, the main character, being a sexy, surfing mathematician - feels too much like Rucker's pulling him off as a Mary Sue character but that could be my natural hesitation toward beautiful characters, preferring the ugly or slightly peculiar. As Rucker's employing first person narration, we don't get any description of Bela, or even his name, until he looks in a mirror and the whole thing feels completely unnatural and awkwardly written, especially given how sexy Bela seems to think he is. I do like the punk rock Queer Eye monster fashions the characters drape themselves in as they wander through their parallel reality Berkeley, and the language pops. Good use of contemporary technologies as science-fiction appendages. The narrative is still revving up so Rucker's got time to pull me more fully into the story.