Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: We look at hidden comic book stores, how movies were pirated in 1983, drugs in science fiction, bookselling and radio dramas.
- Joseph Koch’s Comic Book Warehouse has one of the largest collections of science fiction, fantasy and superhero comic books on the planet, but it’s almost unheard of. [New York Times]
- In 1983, a copy of Return of the Jedi was stolen at gunpoint. [Mental Floss]
- Drugs appear throughout science fiction, from early stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to Dune. [Motherboard]
- As chain bookstores in the United States collapse, there’s one bookstore in the UK that’s thriving, because it has stuck to one thing: books. [Slate]
- How National Public Radio turned Star Wars into a radio drama. [NPR]
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