He is a great writer. A fav.
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I fell for that so you don’t have to.
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I’ll have to check out that book – I love books about well-intentioned disasters. I recently read a book about the Broadway fiasco that was “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” (Glen Berger’s “The Song of Spiderman”) and it was a real hoot.
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Severance as others have said is great. You should also check out “For All Mankind” and “Slow Horses”.
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Be careful - reading that book sent me down a rabbit hole of books about film disasters!
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Agreed 100%, For All Mankind is fantastic, and a lot of the DS9/Battlestar Galactica alumni are on the writing staff.
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It’s like the first three episodes of a pretty good cable TV series that got canceled for no reason
It’ll remind us of Star Wars and Avatar and such things but that’s kinda the whole point 
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Ooooo, series 2 of Slow Horses is out!
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Maybe I will give it a try. Still scared, though.
I, too, loved Burroughs’ Mars books as a kid, and I very much enjoyed the movie. It’s worth checking out, if you ask me. 
This and the post about the guy taking far too much moly made me think of:
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There was even a computer game!
Effinger seemed to be into video games. He also wrote some tie-in novels based on Zork and other Infocom games.
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not to mention the cartoon! 
( ive never heard of that book before. library here i come! )
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oh america. you’ve always been dystopic haven’t you
Throughout his life, Effinger suffered from health problems. These resulted in enormous medical bills which he was unable to pay, resulting in a declaration of bankruptcy. Because Louisiana’s system of law descends from the Napoleonic Code rather than English Common Law, the possibility existed that copyrights to Effinger’s works and characters might revert to his creditors, in this case the hospital. However, no representative of the hospital showed up at the bankruptcy hearing, and Effinger regained the rights to all his intellectual property
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something something “witch trials”
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which trials?
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it was like kafka but without the electricity and clean water
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