Genji and the Printing Press
In today's era of internet hype, is there still a place for the lowly book? Depends on whether you want what you write to survive the contraction of technology and energy in the deindustrial future. An encouraging post for book lovers, and a depressing one for almost everyone else, from The Archdruid Report.
About John Michael
Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil. SF editor George Scithers' dictum that all would-be writers have a million words of so of bad prose in them...
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John Michael’s Favorite Books
An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell'...