<p>You love reading. You’re always looking for great things to read? 📖 📚</p><p>Me too! *<em>high five</em>* 🙏</p><p>Today, I’m talking with my friends <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/TinkeredThinker">Tinkered Thinking</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/DylanoA4">Dylan O’Sullivan</a> about ‘<a target="_blank" href="https://www.infinitebooks.com/books/products/white-mirror"><em>White Mirror</em></a>’, a book written by the former, edited by the latter, and published by OSV’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.infinitebooks.com/books/products/white-mirror">Infinite Books</a> (<em>full disclosure: I was involved in the publication of this book, but we wanted to publish it because it’s great, we don’t think it’s great because we published it. The order matters!</em>).</p><p>It’s a wide-ranging conversation aimed at those who HAVEN’T yet read the book, so don’t worry. We go down all kinds of rabbit holes 🐇 and tangents, including:</p><p>* From a tweet to 31 stories, the wild origin of <em>White Mirror</em></p><p>* The intersection of technology & human experience</p><p>* Reclaiming childlike imagination and a sense of wonder as an antidote to pessimism</p><p>* Simulation theory, meditation, and the nature of reality</p><p>* Literary architecture and chiastic structures</p><p>* Predictions in the book that are coming true, and startup ideas hidden in the stories</p><p>* The craft of writing fiction vs. non-fiction</p><p>* Status games, adulthood, and missing rituals and rites of passage</p><p>* Writing science fiction as someone who doesn’t read much scifi</p><p>* …and much more</p><p>🏆 Giveaway: 5 Signed Copies of White Mirror! 🪞📚✍️</p><p>Thanks to Tinkered’s generosity, I’m giving away <strong>five signed copies of </strong><strong><em>White Mirror</em></strong>. If you want to participate, the instructions are simple:</p><p>* <strong>If you’re a paid supporter</strong> and are interested, send me an email to let me know you’d like one (you can just reply to any of the newsletter emails or this podcast email). <strong>Send this before December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST</strong>. That’s it.</p><p>* On <strong>December 3, 2025,</strong> I’ll draw names out of a hat, or buy one of those bingo machines with the balls bouncing around, or use randomizing software, whatever, and <strong>pick 5 winners</strong>. When you win, I’ll email you to ask for shipping details.</p><p>* <strong>If you’re NOT yet a paid supporter, but would like to become one before December 1, no problem</strong>, you can participate. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe"><strong>Hit the subscribe button</strong></a>, and then drop me an email that mentions you’re interested in the signed book (<em>I’ll also send you a link to the private Discord and to Zoom Q&As I do with supporters</em>).</p><p>There aren’t that many of you, and not all will enter, so <strong>if you do put your name in the hat 🎟️ 🎩 your odds of getting a signed book are </strong><strong><em>very good</em></strong>.</p><p>But you don’t have to wait for that to buy it. And if you win, just keep the signed copy and give the regular one to someone else. 🎁</p><p>🛒 Best Place to Buy the Book 👇</p><p>You can <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Mirror-Stories-Deluxe-Paperback/dp/1964378036">buy </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Mirror-Stories-Deluxe-Paperback/dp/1964378036"><em>White Mirror</em></a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Mirror-Stories-Deluxe-Paperback/dp/1964378036"> on Amazon</a>, but the real pro move is to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.infinitebooks.com/books/products/white-mirror">get it from Infinite Books</a> because, for the same price, you get the <strong>deluxe paperback of the book + the audiobook + the ebook (DRM-free)</strong>.</p><p>The book is a beautiful artifact, we spent a ton of time obsessing over the details. 🔍</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe</a>