1/2 It's @jwomack.bsky.social 's birthday today, so let’s talk books. His Dryco series is some of the best SF/cyberpunk/whatever you want to call it around and includes to extraordinary Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
1/2 It's @jwomack.bsky.social 's birthday today, so let’s talk books. His Dryco series is some of the best SF/cyberpunk/whatever you want to call it around and includes to extraordinary Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
Truly truly truly cannot recommend this, and the entire Dryco series enough. Random Acts, in particular, is one of the most profoundly unnerving things I’ve ever ready (complementary)
See also, @jwomack.bsky.social's *Random Acts (1995), which really bit into the copper wire of the immanent American future: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther...
“There’s Too Much Reality”: On Jack Womack’s “Random Acts of Senseless Violence” | Los Angeles Review of Books
With everyone thinking about "The Handmaid's Tale" after the election, Ron Hogan believes "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is also appropriate reading.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Truly truly truly cannot recommend this, and the entire Dryco series enough. Random Acts, in particular, is one of the most profoundly unnerving things I’ve ever ready (complementary)
Hey, Womack’s Dryco books are right there if you’re looking for a project…
July 26, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Hey, Womack’s Dryco books are right there if you’re looking for a project…
And then keep reading the rest of the "Dryco" series for the corporate-powered dystopia that follows on. Also scarily relevant.
Looking for a dystopian novel you haven’t read that fits our current zeitgeist? Look no further than Jack Womack’s 1993 book, Random Acts of Senseless Violence. Especially if you’re a New Yorker. #booksky
February 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
And then keep reading the rest of the "Dryco" series for the corporate-powered dystopia that follows on. Also scarily relevant.
I figure most people know about Random Acts of Senseless Violence, but they need to know Dryco too.
August 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I figure most people know about Random Acts of Senseless Violence, but they need to know Dryco too.
The Dryco dystopia, right here right now
Meanwhile a very cheery dude is coming thru my subway car peddling merchandise: “Pepper sprays! Tasers! Only you know what you need! If he comes for your skirt make his eyes hurt.”
… and he’s getting customers.
… and he’s getting customers.
November 14, 2024 at 6:55 AM
The Dryco dystopia, right here right now
While I still think "Random Acts..." is the scariest, most immediately terrifying of all @jwomack.bsky.social's Dryco books, I'm increasingly awed at his landing on "low grade crime family stumbles onto global power and generationally wrings it for every cent" as the truly prescient thing.
August 24, 2026 at 1:45 PM
While I still think "Random Acts..." is the scariest, most immediately terrifying of all @jwomack.bsky.social's Dryco books, I'm increasingly awed at his landing on "low grade crime family stumbles onto global power and generationally wrings it for every cent" as the truly prescient thing.
Constantly trying to get people to read Womack's DryCo stuff for exactly this reason!
March 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Constantly trying to get people to read Womack's DryCo stuff for exactly this reason!
@jwomack.bsky.social Just realised that Whipping Boy’s Heartworm is pretty much the theme tune of every single Dryco novel.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
@jwomack.bsky.social Just realised that Whipping Boy’s Heartworm is pretty much the theme tune of every single Dryco novel.
Herregud jeg elsker at jeg klarer å lese igjen. Og sånn skikkelig sluke bok-lesing også. Nå er det Dryco-serien av Jack Womack også skal jeg spandere på meg Dørene Lukkes når trygda kommer.
August 15, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Herregud jeg elsker at jeg klarer å lese igjen. Og sånn skikkelig sluke bok-lesing også. Nå er det Dryco-serien av Jack Womack også skal jeg spandere på meg Dørene Lukkes når trygda kommer.
Dynamite. Not related to the Dryco books.
July 23, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Dynamite. Not related to the Dryco books.
The Culture, keep the socialism
Earthsea, keep the rejection of resolution
The Dryco Chronicles, keep the tragedy
The Southern Reach, keep the disturbing ambiguity
Blue Ant, keep the late capitalist alienation
Earthsea, keep the rejection of resolution
The Dryco Chronicles, keep the tragedy
The Southern Reach, keep the disturbing ambiguity
Blue Ant, keep the late capitalist alienation
August 16, 2026 at 4:53 AM
The Culture, keep the socialism
Earthsea, keep the rejection of resolution
The Dryco Chronicles, keep the tragedy
The Southern Reach, keep the disturbing ambiguity
Blue Ant, keep the late capitalist alienation
Earthsea, keep the rejection of resolution
The Dryco Chronicles, keep the tragedy
The Southern Reach, keep the disturbing ambiguity
Blue Ant, keep the late capitalist alienation
- @jwomack.bsky.social's Dryco novels
-Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation
-Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
-Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels, not really cyberpunk but a great concept
Christopher Brown's novels
-Butler's Parable novels if you haven't read them
-Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang
-Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation
-Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
-Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels, not really cyberpunk but a great concept
Christopher Brown's novels
-Butler's Parable novels if you haven't read them
-Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
- @jwomack.bsky.social's Dryco novels
-Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation
-Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
-Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels, not really cyberpunk but a great concept
Christopher Brown's novels
-Butler's Parable novels if you haven't read them
-Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang
-Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation
-Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
-Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels, not really cyberpunk but a great concept
Christopher Brown's novels
-Butler's Parable novels if you haven't read them
-Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang
Evette van Rooyen, one of #MISA's Recruitment and Liaison Officers, and Frans Phalane, one of #MISA's Member Liaison Officers, recruiting new #PROUDLYMISA members at Dryco Delayreyville in the North West.
September 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Evette van Rooyen, one of #MISA's Recruitment and Liaison Officers, and Frans Phalane, one of #MISA's Member Liaison Officers, recruiting new #PROUDLYMISA members at Dryco Delayreyville in the North West.
If there is such a thing as a silver lining to the pitch black clouds of today it’s that more people seem to be reading the Dryco series in general and “Random Acts…” specifically.
Not really here today but those of you who've said good things about Random Acts, thank you very much.
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If there is such a thing as a silver lining to the pitch black clouds of today it’s that more people seem to be reading the Dryco series in general and “Random Acts…” specifically.
Man, all his Dryco books are brilliant, weird, ruthlessly contemporary, and singularly offputting in a way that makes me glad I read them but not psychologically willing to revisit them.
November 15, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Man, all his Dryco books are brilliant, weird, ruthlessly contemporary, and singularly offputting in a way that makes me glad I read them but not psychologically willing to revisit them.
What wouldn’t I give for an audiobook of Mr. Womack reading even one of the Dryco books. Just to hear that language as its creator imagined it. And, RANDOM ACTS. Someone make it so, please!
I miss hearing you actually talk, Jack. You have the most delightful voice. (I mean, you have a great voice, too, Neil, but you record it in more places.)
October 10, 2023 at 9:52 PM
What wouldn’t I give for an audiobook of Mr. Womack reading even one of the Dryco books. Just to hear that language as its creator imagined it. And, RANDOM ACTS. Someone make it so, please!
Yes and Thumbs up to both ThriftBooks and Bookshop. Thriftbooks is particularly good for weird niche out of print stuff. When Bluesky folks started talking about Jack Womack's Dryco Series (billionaire madman running America dystopia) I was able to pick them all up for about $5/pop.
March 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Yes and Thumbs up to both ThriftBooks and Bookshop. Thriftbooks is particularly good for weird niche out of print stuff. When Bluesky folks started talking about Jack Womack's Dryco Series (billionaire madman running America dystopia) I was able to pick them all up for about $5/pop.
Womack's Dryco books have haunted me for years. In some ways, they helped prepare me for recent world events.
February 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Womack's Dryco books have haunted me for years. In some ways, they helped prepare me for recent world events.
William Gibson (“The Peripheral”)
Jack Womack (the whole Dryco series starting with “Random Acts Of Senseless Violence”)
Jack Womack (the whole Dryco series starting with “Random Acts Of Senseless Violence”)
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
William Gibson (“The Peripheral”)
Jack Womack (the whole Dryco series starting with “Random Acts Of Senseless Violence”)
Jack Womack (the whole Dryco series starting with “Random Acts Of Senseless Violence”)
Jack Womack's "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is a frighteningly prescient novel.
The way it depicts the inevitable degradation of society due to unfettered capitalism is unsurpassed as far as my reading goes, and I love near-future dystopian fiction.
All the Dryco novels are amazing.
The way it depicts the inevitable degradation of society due to unfettered capitalism is unsurpassed as far as my reading goes, and I love near-future dystopian fiction.
All the Dryco novels are amazing.
Jack Womack (RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE) & John Brunner (THE SHEEP LOOK UP) won the future-predicting lottery. Not the future(s) we deserve but the future(s) we've got, & etc.
March 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Jack Womack's "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is a frighteningly prescient novel.
The way it depicts the inevitable degradation of society due to unfettered capitalism is unsurpassed as far as my reading goes, and I love near-future dystopian fiction.
All the Dryco novels are amazing.
The way it depicts the inevitable degradation of society due to unfettered capitalism is unsurpassed as far as my reading goes, and I love near-future dystopian fiction.
All the Dryco novels are amazing.
@jwomack.bsky.social dreamt I was camera operator on a black and white movie about Dryco directed by you and filming guerrilla-style in lower manhattan. Preparations were extensive, you’d scouted all the locations personally and I had stacks of photos to plan my camera positions with
November 17, 2024 at 10:26 AM
@jwomack.bsky.social dreamt I was camera operator on a black and white movie about Dryco directed by you and filming guerrilla-style in lower manhattan. Preparations were extensive, you’d scouted all the locations personally and I had stacks of photos to plan my camera positions with
"Prodco" like "Dryco" but considerably more advanced
July 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Prodco" like "Dryco" but considerably more advanced
Jack Womack's Dryco series had that one year with five Presidents, pretty sure after the first couple of successful assassinations people stopped counting
October 15, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Jack Womack's Dryco series had that one year with five Presidents, pretty sure after the first couple of successful assassinations people stopped counting
2. Just 5 is *really* difficult. Gonna cheat and do standalones then series.
Carrion Comfort
1984
Cosmic Trigger
Silmarillion
A Scanner Darkly
Earthsea
Dune (by Frank H only)
Malazan
Dryco
The Culture
None in particular order. I've only read LOTR once but Silmarillion 6 times, and I prefer it.
Carrion Comfort
1984
Cosmic Trigger
Silmarillion
A Scanner Darkly
Earthsea
Dune (by Frank H only)
Malazan
Dryco
The Culture
None in particular order. I've only read LOTR once but Silmarillion 6 times, and I prefer it.
August 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM
2. Just 5 is *really* difficult. Gonna cheat and do standalones then series.
Carrion Comfort
1984
Cosmic Trigger
Silmarillion
A Scanner Darkly
Earthsea
Dune (by Frank H only)
Malazan
Dryco
The Culture
None in particular order. I've only read LOTR once but Silmarillion 6 times, and I prefer it.
Carrion Comfort
1984
Cosmic Trigger
Silmarillion
A Scanner Darkly
Earthsea
Dune (by Frank H only)
Malazan
Dryco
The Culture
None in particular order. I've only read LOTR once but Silmarillion 6 times, and I prefer it.