Interesting ebooks of dubious provenance, economics in hard sf, keeping the day job…

• 1 – Should Economics be Part of Hard SF?
  “Maybe a true hard sf author in 2020 will have to master not just physics, biology, computer science, economics, sociology, psychology – and write well, of course. We better invent brain enhancements quickly if we are to get anybody with that kind of expe
  (tags: speculation accuracy economics future writing literature sf scifi fiction science)
• 2 – BRAINSTURBATOR LIBRARY
  An intriguing array of obscure books, in PDF form, of dubious provenance and legality. For informational purposes, natch. Cheers, Mac.
  (tags: reference reading online library illumination education archive books PDF)
• 3 – Mainstream is not wowed by Second Life
  “…there is one repeatedly recurring reaction: that people are affronted, even insulted that others would spend time in an immersive world.” The anatomy of the knee-jerk.
  (tags: rejection condemnation reaction mainstream public reality virtual world immersive synthetic Life Second)
• 4 – The New York Times Magazine – The 6th Annual Year in Ideas
  “Our editors and writers have located the peaks and valleys of ingenuity — the human cognitive faculty deployed with intentions good and bad, purposes serious and silly, consequences momentous and morbid.”
  (tags: futurism concepts ideas year article retrospective annual 2006)
• 5 – Michael Bourret suggests that you “keep your day job.”
  “Very, very few novelists get to stay home writing all day. The truth is, many people get one book published, and then find that if the first book doesn’t work, the second becomes very difficult to sell.” Cheers, Tobias.
  (tags: freelance publishing benefits career finance day-job author writing)