Intricate cover (three bellybands, debossing, and foil) by Jordan Crane for Michael Chabon’s new non-fiction collection Maps and Legends. Published by McSweeneys.
The Omega Glory
Human sexual reproduction without male genetic material, digital viruses, identity theft, robot firefighters and minesweepers, weather control, pharmaceutical mood engineering, rapid species extinction, US Presidents controlled by little boxes mounted between their shoulder blades, air-conditioned empires in the Arabian desert, transnational corporatocracy, reality television—some days it feels as if the imagined future of the mid-twentieth century was a kind of checklist, one from which we have been too busy ticking off items to bother with extending it.