Transition Workshop, edited Eugene Jolas 1949NEW YORK, Vangaurd Press. Jolas, Eugene, editor. Transition Workshop Missing DJ. Hardcover compendium of avant garde writing in the early 20th century. Bumped corners, some faded edges. All else good. 412 pp.

a Thai French woman

and ribbon markers

—which famously coined the term “robot”—and a collection of essays reflecting on the play’s legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics

” and “What is real

the death of her mother

" he once wrote

he invented the mobile―an abstract sculpture made of independent parts that incorporate natural or mechanical movement

giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic”

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

Alexander Stille has reconstructed the inner life of this hidden parallel world

"The most outré science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon

interviews