Hitting the Books: The mad science behind digging really huge holes

Sure you could replace the President with a self-aware roboclone, take the moon hostage, threaten to release a millennia-old Eldritch horror to wreak unspeakable terror upon the populace, or just blew up a few financial servers in your pursuit of global dominion, but a savvy supervillain knows that the true path to power is through holes -- the deeper, the better. In the excerpt below from his newest book, author Ryan North spelunks into the issues surrounding extreme mining and how the same pri...