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Dan Keck

dankeck@bookrastinating.com

Joined 2 years, 9 months ago

In my filing system, three stars is a good book.

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Dan Keck's books

Ben Riggs: Slaying the Dragon (2022, St. Martin's Press)

Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR— the company that unleashed …

Peek behind the curtain

When I was a kid, AD&D just existed as products on shelves. It's neat to learn some about the internal dealings, business, and relationships at TSR. There's not much detail about the early development of D&D; the book's focus is (as advertised) TSR's fall from success to unprofitability and eventual purchase by Wizards of the Coast.

John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider (1995, Del Rey)

This 1975 book pretty much nailed the contradictions inherent in global networking, long before the …

1970s view of the Internet

The characters and story didn't do it for me, but I enjoyed seeing a 1970s sci-fi author's predictions of what it would look like if everyone had a networked computer with curated access to the world's knowledge.