The complete shortlist is here: “Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist” at the Guardian. Do they read so many books that it is the cumulative cost that weighs heavy on their bank balance? Selling books involves diving into an ugly feeding frenzy and doing whatever you can think of to stay afloat. I’m on the foothills, making a living but short of buying a five-million-dollar private jet by almost five million dollars. I think that Villeneuve made the Blade Runner universe his own in a way that Ridley Scott did with his original movie.