A place to place the books that I bound

After the month-long odyssey that was my last bookbind, I decided to take it easy and embarked on something much simpler and easier: a short story.

Then I decided to rizz it up a bit by adding photos, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

I have known the lawyer/author Jonathan Edelstein for almost a decade, and I have enjoyed much of his works and short stories as they are published from forums to speculative fiction magazines across the internet. After taking up bookbinding, I soon realized I could create a fully-printed copy of his earliest published work: First Do No Harm.

First Do No Harm is a tale that is uncommon to come by; an Afrofuturist, neo-galactic, post-apocalyptic medical drama. I shall not reveal the plot, but I am struck today by how such a combination of settings, tropes, and genres are still uncommon in wider western literature, which says a few things on popular taste, but I digress.

As with my last bookbind, I placed relevant images to add to the story's mood. And as before, I also added a meta and comments section. The tale was first published in a forum before being polished and shined in a magazine, and I preserved the comments of early readers there as both remembrance and for their discussions.

Full thanks to Jonathan Edelstein for his permission for me to bind his work!