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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