Another one that (currently) doesn’t seem that easy to Google (even though it should be!)
Cover art from a UK release of Neil Stephenson’s Quicksilver
Tag: Books
The Beadlean Library
The Fence has an interesting little article about Jeremy Beadle and his rather large collection of books – though, of course, like any article of this nature it’s not just about Beadle and his rather large collection of books.
Doomsday Machines
My current-thing-of-the-moment is ‘Doomsday Machines‘ by Alex Wellerstein of NukeMap/Nuclear Secrecy Blog fame. Fairly new, it looks at the post-apocalyptic world in both fact and fiction and, if you’re looking for a starting point, then I’d suggest ‘The end of The Road‘ – a look at Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and McCarthy’s own take on the themes of the novel.
