 NewsSam Kieth cover for Anda’s Game comic
I mentioned back in March that IDW comics is doing a series of six comics based on my short stories, with a Creative Commons-licensed collection at the end of the series. I’ve just gotten my first cover for the series, for my story Anda’s Game, designed by kick-ass comics artist Sam Kieth. Man, that’s h4wt, and the script, written by Dara Naraghi (I blogged his webcomics back in October), is fantastic. Nonsense words from OverclockedVerbotomy, an online game that challenges people to invent words, create definitions for them, and use them in sentences, is using my short story collection Overclocked for its raw material this week — they’ve come up with some great words already!
Locus Award finalists – I’m a double nominee!
(via Memoirs of a Vulture Princess) Overclocked signing in San Diego next ThursdayNext Thursday, March 29 at 6:30, I’ll be doing a drop-in signing and meet-and-greet at the Mysterious Galaxy bookstore in San Diego. They’ve got a stack of copies of Overclocked (my new short story collection) in stock. I hope to see you there!
IDW will do six comics based on my storiesI just signed the contracts on a comic book deal for six of my stories with IDW. They got the exclusive right to sell commercial comics based on my stories, but those stories are already under Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike/Noncommercial licenses that allow fans to make non-commercial comics (and films, etc) from them. My agent, Russell Galen, wrote a nifty little clause spelling this out (see below). Lots of people have asked me whether doing a non-commercial CC release makes it impossible to sell commercial rights to a traditional publisher. Here’s how it can work: The exclusive rights granted to Licensee hereunder are subject to a pre-existing Creative Commons license which grants members of the public the irrevocable and nonexclusive right to create their own adaptations of the Licensed Property, including comic books. Such Creative Commons-licensed works may not be sold or distributed for profit. Licensee acknowledges that under the terms of this Creative Commons license, members of the public may create comic book version of the Licensed Property for non-commercial distribution. Licensor agrees not to license the rights which are granted to Licensee hereunder to any competitor of Licensee or to any commercial enterprise intending to create adaptations of the Works for commercial distribution. Here’s the list of stories that are being adapted: Anda’s Game Song based on OverclockedMidnight.Haulkerton, a “Grok Rock” band from Australia, has very kindly recorded a song inspired by my new short story collection, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present — just the first of more to come. This is about the coolest, most flattering thing ever.
LA book-launch: TONIGHT!
Other upcoming events: Duke University, Feb 22; University of North Carolina, Feb 22; Ad Astra Toronto, Mar 2-4; Simon Fraser U, Vancouver, Mar 8/9 Coming to Duke, UNC, Ad Astra TorontoI’m coming to North Carolina on Feb 22 to give a talk on privacy at Duke University at 5PM and a talk on copyright at the University of North Carolina at 2PM. There’ll be books for sale at both — hope to see you there!
Vancouver lectures, Overclocked launch, Mar 8/9
Audio from last night’s launch at BorderlandsRandall “Sorcerer Mickey” Cooper came to my book-launch at San Francisco’s Borderlands Books last night, and caught audio of me reading “Printcrime” and answering a wide-ranging series of questions. The audio and a report are on his LiveJournal. 
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Each short story is an idea bomb with a candy coating of human drama, wrapped in shiny tech tropes and ready to blow your mind. Overclocked is SF info-warfare ammunition of the highest caliber, so load up, move out, and take no prisoners…let Asimov sort em out.
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