Thread by @doctorow

When I was a kid haunting my mall bookstore's sf section, I had my head blown open by a weird-ass, comedy-apocalyptic debut novel by @marc_laidlaw called "Dad's Nuke."

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Over the years, I followed Laidlaw's career advidly, doubly so once I saw he'd been featured in Mirrorshades, @bruces' genre-defining cyberpunk anthology.

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But for many years, Laidlaw's fiction slowed to a trickle, after he took work as a writer for Valve, and helped define modern game writing with his work on Half-Life.

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Laidlaw's been getting back into fiction, and has reissued his whole back-catalog as DRM-free ebooks:

amazon.com/s?k=marc+laidl…

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He's also reissued his entire short fiction oeuvre in a single, massive collection:

amazon.com/400-Boys-More-…

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Now, he's launched a Youtube series in which he reads that fiction aloud, as he waits out the apocalypse with the rest of us:

youtube.com/c/MarcLaidlawS…

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I recommend starting with "400 Boys," his story from Mirrorshades:



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