ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Jeremy Silver
vice president, new media, EMI Recorded Music.
A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe. "It's hard not to read Charlie Croker as a metaphor for a new media venture. He starts from nothing and amasses great wealth, but then overextends himself trying to build a lasting empire - anchored by the Croker Concourse office tower in Atlanta - and slowly spirals down into bankruptcy. The first half of the book is so compelling, and creates such high expectations, that the rest of it is doomed to fail. I don't know of anyone who has completed this book, myself included. Novelists, like entrepreneurs, must pay attention to their exit strategies."
Bonnie Hammer
executive vice president and general manager, SciFi Channel.
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, by Michael Dorris. "It's about love, death, and relationships within three generations of Native American women, but it's also about how perceptions create reality. The mother, daughter, and grandmother all live with untruths about what happened in each other's lives, and these perceptions created their own, internally consistent models of the world - just like good science fiction builds entire speculative worlds. It's all in the head: how we perceive ourselves, how we perceive others, and how others perceive us. And these three things rarely line up."
STREET CRED
Camtastic
The Drive to Drive
Bot-Conquest
Is That a V Series in Your Pocket ...
Scripting With Sharks
A Brighter Idea
This Life's for You
Read Me
Music
Meat and Greet
The Rite Stuff at JPL
Headset Smasher
Thief of Arts
Just Outta Beta
Think Small
Finding the Fast Lane Fast
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