Feb 12, 2009

Jamais’ collection of essays about geoengineering, Hacking the Earth, is available from Lulu.







Jamais writes: It gathers together the major pieces I’ve written about geoengineering, here and at Worldchanging; I’ve edited most of them to bring the content up to date, eliminate the bloggier aspects (“such and such just appeared at this link”), and give it a bit more flow.

This is my “have to have a book in print” stake in the ground, at least for now. It’s sometimes surprising how important a print publication still is in many knowledge and analysis fields. It doesn’t matter if it’s widely read, it just needs to exist.

This is also an experiment in publish-on-demand. Rather than go through a traditional publisher, I’m trying out Lulu.com. This gives me a bit more control over the content, and allows me to put something about on a subject that probably won’t be generating a lot of mainstream attention for another couple of years.

If you decide to buy a copy, thank you. If not, thank you, too. I’m really curious about how well this model of book publishing works, in terms of both success and failure.

I don’t think I have any more geoengineering items lined up right now. Therefore, I declare Terraformingstock over for now.