Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. What I’m Reading/Watching As a teenager, I had a Philip K Dick phase, and one of the books that I read out of his vast oeuvre was one called The Penultimate Truth (spoilers alert). I don’t remember much of it, but I have vague recollections of humans being forced to live in crowded warrens underground, and under the belief that overground has been made completely radioactive and uninhabitable after a nuclear war. It turns out as the book unravels that the overground is nothing of the sort, and this is only a rumour spread by a few individuals [the eponymous “penultimate truth”], who stay on the surface and lord it over all the world in their massive, personal demesnes. It was a
Words for Worlds - Issue LVIII
Words for Worlds - Issue LVIII
Words for Worlds - Issue LVIII
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. What I’m Reading/Watching As a teenager, I had a Philip K Dick phase, and one of the books that I read out of his vast oeuvre was one called The Penultimate Truth (spoilers alert). I don’t remember much of it, but I have vague recollections of humans being forced to live in crowded warrens underground, and under the belief that overground has been made completely radioactive and uninhabitable after a nuclear war. It turns out as the book unravels that the overground is nothing of the sort, and this is only a rumour spread by a few individuals [the eponymous “penultimate truth”], who stay on the surface and lord it over all the world in their massive, personal demesnes. It was a