Philip K Dick’s first published novel was Solar Lottery in 1955. It was a thirty five cent Ace paperback. If you flip the book over, there’s no back cover, there’s a different front cover, and it’s upside down. When you turn it right side up, it’s a novel by Leigh Brackett, The Big Jump. Solar Lottery and The Big Jump –…
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification. Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. It will help you understand many things, oh so many things, about how and why the massive platforms are breaking…
The most valuable book in my collection is a copy of Neuromancer published in 1986 by Phantasia Press. Only 375 numbered copies were signed by the author, bound with gold endpapers, in a white cloth slipcase. It’s tough to find but there are two copies on Abebooks right now, one for $6,500, the other for $8,000. The enduring cultural…
You can read almost any book in print for free, new or old, using an app named Libby. It’s legal! In fact, it’s encouraged. Maybe I’m not telling you anything new. Lots of people use Libby. If you know, you know. But if you aren’t familiar with Libby, this might rock your world and I’ll be…