WIRED Culture Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Turn Your Fandom Into Cash: A Geeky Guide to Turn Your Passion Into a Business (or at Least a Side Hustle)
Carol Pinchefsky
Carol Pinchefsky's book 'Turn Your Fandom Into Cash' helps people monetize their hobbies. https://t.co/824u9z9JgC
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Novelist
Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro’s 'The Novelist' nails the experience of being online, in all its abject glory. https://t.co/6xFk39OSdp
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aesthetica
Allie Rowbottom
Two new novels, Ling Ling Huang’s "Natural Beauty" and Allie Rowbottom’s "Aesthetica," fuse gore with the world of beauty and wellness. Call it Goopcore. https://t.co/mbCkpdXMe2
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Counterweight
Djuna
The pseudonymous writer’s new book, 'Counterweight,' will finally be released in English. WIRED talked to them about space elevators, AI, and Ursula K. Le Guin. https://t.co/TRD0u539YJ
Out of stock

Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
Ben Riggs
In 'Slaying the Dragon,' author Ben Riggs goes deep into the backstory of TSR to reveal a company in disarray. https://t.co/4BtlaTqaTM
Out of stock

The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man is a book about race metamorphosis—and the seduction of power. https://t.co/T2JgsF7h8Y
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hella
David Gerrold
For episode 454 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy #podcast we discuss David Gerrold's new novel Hella, a novel about a low-gravity planet inhabited by dinosaur-like aliens that goes into enormous detail about the logistics of settling an alien world. https://t.co/lFTxKaBf3p
Hardcover, 2020
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
China Mountain Zhang
Maureen McHugh
Many of China Mountain Zhang author Maureen McHugh's stories explore the relationship between moms and their children. https://t.co/Z7L8CTAm8d
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The show has a lot more action than Isaac Asimov's novels, but it's lacking in the late author's braininess. https://trib.al/B7bG7Sb
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dune
Frank Herbert
The director has wanted to adapt Frank Herbert’s book since he was a teenager. Now he’s finished (the first half of) what he hopes will be the ultimate 'Dune.' https://trib.al/g7X7oCg
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book