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With a Little Help: An Experiment in Publishing (CreateSpace, 2010, ISBN 1-4565-7634-8) is a collection consisting of mostly previously published science fiction short stories and novellas by Cory Doctorow, with one new short story.[1][2] This is Doctorow's third published collection, following Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. Each story includes an afterword by the author, and the anthology includes an introduction by Jonathan Coulton and an afterword by Russell Galen.
 First edition | |
| Author | Cory Doctorow |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Pablo Defendini |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Publication date | October 11, 2010 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 1-4565-7634-8 |
The book is notable for being published under the author's own imprint, rather than with a traditional book publisher, and for its DRM-free digital audiobook and ebook editions being sold on a name-your-own-price basis, with the revenue from the book being publicly disclosed on the author's website.[3]
Contents
edit- "Introduction," by Jonathan Coulton
- "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" (Locus Award Finalist for Novelette, 2009[4])
- "The Right Book"
- "Other People's Money"
- "Scroogled"
- "Human Readable" (Locus Recommended Reading List (Novellas), 2005[5])
- "Liberation Spectrum"
- "Power Punctuation!"
- "Visit the Sins"
- "Constitutional Crisis"
- "Pester Power"
- "Chicken Little"
- "Epoch"
- "I'm Only In It For the Money," by Russell Galen
Footnotes
edit- ^ Cory Doctorow: Bugging In by Francesca Myman (2017)
- ^ Sci-Fi's Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction published by NPR (2010)
- ^ Raets, Stefan (2011-03-11). "The Experiment Behind Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ locusmag (2009-04-27). "2009 Locus Award Finalists". Locus Online. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ "Locus Online: Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2005". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
External links
edit- Official Book Page on Cory Doctorow's website
- Online Version of the book
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