Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. Thanks for all of the quality posts. The Top Five Posts Of The Week were dominated by @Nadia and @plebpoet. Thanks to both of you for carrying the territory this week! As always, please reply to this post with suggestions and opinions on how to make this territory better.
I hope everyone has a good week.

The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.

Here are this week’s top posts:

I like stillstackin’s poem posts, but this one was a little out of my element. I’m not a scifi fan at all, but I was immediately drawn in by this cyborg’s (is that what you call her?) predicament. Still stackin found a gem in an unlikely place. I’m a sucker for a grim, apocalyptic vision.

I appreciated this post by @grayruby for a few reasons. Nathaniel Popper wrote Digital Gold, a well written and very entertaining narrative of the early days of bitcoin. If you haven’t read it, give it a try. Also, this is a Kevin Rooke podcast. Our old friend is an underrated podcast host, in my opinion, and I intend to catch up on some of his old episodes soon. I for one miss @kr’s insights here on Stacker News.

This week’s Golden Oldie:

This is a really good old book recommendation post. The post and the many replies are equally valuable. I always find some books I am not familiar with in these type of posts.

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.