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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Whole Earth Catalog
Book Review: Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee
Reading this book is a natural progression after recently reading Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff. Brand was one of Fuller’s many admirers, so much so that pages three and four of Brand’s The Last … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckminster Fuller, counterculture, Dymaxion, Stewart Brand, Synergetics, Whole Earth Catalog
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Book Review: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
I’m always on the lookout for good books on the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The title of this biography emphasizes Brand’s main contribution to that era, The Whole Earth Catalog. Though it delves into the making of … Continue reading
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Tagged acid tests, counterculture, hippies, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Silicon Valley, sixties, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog
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Book Review: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
Prefacing the conclusion to this riveting and terrifying book is a famous quote by Stewart Brand: “We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.” Brand was the editor of the original Whole Earth Catalog, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Google, Internet, LikeWar, Stewart Brand, Twitter, Whole Earth Catalog
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