The Verge Book Club - Video

January's Book Club Book was the extraordinary Alif the Unseen, a 2012 New York Times Notable book by G. Willow Wilson. This month, Adi and Laura are joined by Wilson herself to discuss the book.

In the real world — Planet Earth, reality — there are somewhere between six and ten billion people. Perhaps a billion of them have enough money to own a computer; those people have more money than all the others put together. Of these billion potential computer owners, maybe a quarter of them actually bother to own computers, and a quarter of those have machines that are powerful enough to handle the Street protocol. That makes for about sixty million people who can be on the Street at any given time. Add in another sixty million or so who can't really afford it but go there anyways, and at any given time the Street is occupied by twice the population of New York City.

October has come and gone, and The Verge Book Club has moved on to Inverted World. Before you get too enthralled in Christopher Priest's classic, however, we invite you to take a moment to reflect on Foucault's Pendulum. Join our own Laura June, Adi Robertson, and The Awl's Ken Layne as they discuss Umberto Eco's novel and what it means to them.

Join Joshua Topolsky, Laura June and special guest Lev Grossman as they discuss the book and Philip K. Dick the man for approximately one hour, and don't forget to join us for the October book, Foucault's Pendulum.