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A few days ago, Cory Doctorow released his first self-published short story collection titled With A Little Help.
Cory has always released his books under the Creative Commons open license, which allows his readers to share and re-mix his books. This time around Doctorow is experimenting in self-publishing the book in a number of different formats from free text and audio podcast, through an audio CD book, to a limited edition hard cover physical book.
In my opinion, together with Charlie Stross, Cory Doctorow is among the most prolific and visionary science fiction writers of our generation. Amazingly, his prolific writing seems to improve, rather than dilute the quality of his work, and With A Little Help is a good example of that. The book contains 12 previously published short stories, as well as one new one - Epoch, which was commissioned by the Ubuntu project‘s Mark Shuttleworth.
You can click any of the title links above and visit his book’s home page for more information on how to buy a copy, or, you can download the full text for free here.
Finally, every day for the next 2 weeks, I will be publishing a free chapter of his audio book as a daily special podcast feature for Singularity 1 on 1.
Today I am posting Chapter 5 - Scroogled. The story was originally commissioned by Radar Magazine who asked Doctorow to write about “the day Google became evil.”
I have to admit this is one of my favorite stories from the book. Also, it may be because I have already expressed similar concerns in Is Google Evil?, but this is the one that scares me the most… (As always, you can stream the podcast or download the mp3 file in full.)
Enjoy!
Related articles
- Cory Doctorow’s With A Little Help (full audio book) (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)
- Cory Doctorow’s With A Little Help: The Right Book (Chapter 3) (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)
- Cory Doctorow’s With A Little Help: Other Peoples Money (Chapter 4) (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)
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