Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”. David Langford adapted and slightly expanded the US text for Britain, where it was published by Gollancz in hardback and Sphere in paperback. As stated in an internal warning, this “revived” PDF edition “should be regarded as a snapshot of the past – an exercise in sometimes horrified nostalgia for the computer scene of the early 1980s – a symptom of its time. Apart for minor corrections of typos, small omissions, inconsistencies and so on, the text has not been updated.” To put it all in context, there’s a new foreword by Platt and a new afterword by Langford. This paperback released in June 2026. Cover art adapted from the uncredited image on the Gollancz hardback, based on a joke computer game in the text. Internal illustrations by Carl Lundgren. Slightly over 51,000 words. All proceeds from paperback sales go to the TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF): see taff.org.uk.