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2010 collection of short stories and novellas by Cory Doctorow
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With a Little Help
First edition
AuthorCory Doctorow
Cover artistPablo Defendini
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Publication date
October 11, 2010
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN1-4565-7634-8

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.

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

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  • "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

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  1. ^ Cory Doctorow: Bugging In by Francesca Myman (2017)
  2. ^ Sci-Fi's Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction published by NPR (2010)
  3. ^ Raets, Stefan (2011-03-11). "The Experiment Behind Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  4. ^ locusmag (2009-04-27). "2009 Locus Award Finalists". Locus Online. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. ^ "Locus Online: Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2005". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
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