John Taine’s science fiction novel Green Fire is set in 1990, and some of what it describes fits that time, like television and mobile phones. Other aspects, like gender and social customs, read much more like 1928, the year it was published. It may be early, but in some ways unsettlingly on the nose, for its villain, a billionaire technocratic monopolist with a chip on his shoulder and little care for the devastation he creates. The book goes public domain in 3 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown