You’ve seen the Dunes, all of them, even that one on the SyFy Channel, and you want more? Read the books too? And you’ve seen Jodorowsky’s Dune? Then there’s one more book to read. The extraordinarily rare, the storyboard book for the ill-fated Dune adaptation by legendary Chilean director Alexandro Jodorowsky sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington. As it turns out, rare science fiction books are on the rise. Here’s more from the Financial Times:
…collecting first-edition sci-fi novels, once considered a niche trend, is becoming more mainstream. “Science fiction is a fascinating area to collect in, and there are a number of authors whose works have weathered particularly well,” says Anna Middleton of specialist Peter Harrington Rare Books. She namechecks “Iain M Banks’s Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000 for a first-edition hardback, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which will set you back around £2,000.” From here, prices can soar. “Inscribed copies of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot or a full set of his Foundation series are high spots, around £20,000 apiece,” she adds. “Other notable modern authors to collect are Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson and Dan Simmons.”
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat and our Discord!
