Pluralistic: Underground Empire; The Lost Cause prologue part IV (10 Oct 2023)

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Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's must-read account of "How America Weaponized the World Economy."
The Lost Cause prologue part IV: "Commies, agitators, traitors, and climate bed wetters."
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Pluralistic: The Lost Cause prologue (part 2) (07 Oct 2023)

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The Lost Cause prologue (part 2): It's a small world, after all.
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Pluralistic: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause" (06 Oct 2023)

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Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (31 July 2023)

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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it: "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" comes out from Verso on Sept 5.
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Pluralistic: How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free (24 Apr 2023)

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How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free: "Generating a tax loss without a substantial change in the investment."
Happy Independent Bookstore Day: It lasts a week!
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Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy (29 Mar 2023)

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.
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Pluralistic: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell (21 Mar 2023)

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Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!
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Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's incredible, brilliant, stupendous "Temeraire" series (08 Jan 2023)

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Naomi Novik's incredible, brilliant, stupendous "Temeraire" series: The Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons!
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Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2022: Chokepoint Capitalism Kickstarter is live

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Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook: We wrote a book that Amazon won't sell.
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Marc Laidlaw’s “Underneath the Oversea”

A wondrous fairytale, wondrously read, from the storyteller of Half-Life.

The cover of Skyboat Media’s audio edition of Underneath the Oversea.

I have been a Marc Laidlaw fan since his debut novel, Dad’s Nuke — an apocalyptic, madcap dark comedy/road-trip novel that anticipated Snow Crash and its motif of an America dominated by paranoid, fortresslike gated communities.

I avidly consumed all of his subsequent novels and short stories — especially “400 Boys,” his contribution to Bruce Sterling’s seminal cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades.

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