The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Foreclosing on the future of the book https://kottke.org/18/01/foreclosing-on-the-future-of-the-book
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobart-book-village
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/
Civilized libraries are usually sterile, “children’s books” sections mere imitations of actual book nurseries. Occasionally librarians are allowed in as symbionts, and when a building becomes too small - you should see them swarm
If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/old-book-illustrations.html
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Electronic Literature’s Contemporary Moment: Breeze and Campbell’s “All the Delicate Duplicates” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/electronic-literature-turns-a-new-page-breeze-and-campbells-all-the-delicate-duplicates/
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/
Some kind of comic book · Issue #54 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/54
Dark Places: Kier-La Janisse’s “House of Psychotic Women” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dark-places-kier-la-janisses-house-psychotic-women
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-secret-history-of-the-pissing-figure-in-art
Book Review: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha/
Best Dystopian Books http://www.vulture.com/article/best-dystopian-books.html
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/
More practical than the Book of Sand, the Book of Glass consists only of two mirrors, yet contains infinite pages - when closed.
“The Sandman” at 200 | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-sandman-at-200/
Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book https://theintercept.com/2017/08/27/hit-app-sarahah-quietly-uploads-your-address-book/
Error 401 (Unauthorized)!!1 https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=KnVBTk-hS10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA234&dq=Universe+text+generation+soap+opera&ots=XPAcJYIJhb&sig=6dGDx-TQn248kbUueUjmZ58XbbI#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/01/mumbo-jumbo-a-penguin-classic-2017-ishmael-reed
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction
Book Review: Raise A Genius! | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a-genius/
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/?curator=MediaREDEF
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald
The Nihilism of Julian Assange | by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/nihilism-of-julian-assange-wikileaks/
You open your favorite book to find burglars written into it, on a heist to steal one of its best ideas
Kafka’s Joke Book - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/kafkas-joke-book
https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/dan-clore/recommended-books-on-alternative-little-known-history/1758034257545088/
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
Left on a stack of paper overnight, the book has extended roots: Mutated sentences snake over the sheets, curl around glyphs and diagrams
Trust not those who’ve heard the voice of God, any god. No prophet could perceive a whole world and not burst, no holy book could hold one.
Welcome To The Discordian Library [D.I.S.L.I.B. – the Discordian Internet Society’s Library of Interesting Books] https://dislib.lima.zone/doku.php
Book Club 8: Susan Napier‘s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3osCGNf-1w
THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
+++ advice to “read old books” and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++
“To complete the ritual, we need a really bloody book. Fortunately, I brought a map of Europe