“Pirate Cinema” is what we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow. It’s fast, funny, instructive, subversive and a chilling illustration of where current policies may lead.
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The Bradford Telegraph and Argus covers Pirate Cinema today, thanks to David Barnett, who explains how Pirate Cinema came to be set in his paper’s town.
Mr Doctorow says he didn’t just pluck Bradford out of a hat – he’s visited the city several times and spent some time here in 2009 when the big UK science fiction convention, Eastercon, was held in the city.
Eastercon comes again to Bradford next year, and Doctorow is hoping to attend. But he also decided on Bradford because the city was mentioned in a report written by a web entrepreneur for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2009 on digital inclusion, and how some communities – especially in post-industrial northern cities – were at risk from lack of web access.
He said: “The conclusion of the research was about the impact on certain communities in terms of not only their freedom of speech but also employment, education, access to health.
Hey, NYC! Start spreading the news, etc, as I’m appearing today and tomorrow at NY Comic-Con — signing today at 1715h at Table 2, speaking Sunday at 10AM, and signing again at the Tor booth on Sunday at 3PM. I’ll be at Brooklyn’s WORD books on Monday night (today’s the last day to submit your entry to the video remix contest!), before heading to Philadelphia, Bethesda, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Toronto, and Boston! Tell your friends! Here’s the whole schedule.
I’m doing a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything“) at 1PM Pacific today! Come along and ask me anything!
Hey, Evanston, IL! I’ll be at the Evanston Public Library tonight, on the final stop of the Chicago-area part of my Pirate Cinema tour (if you’re coming, you can RSVP here). Tomorrow, I head to NYC for appearances at Comic-Con and WORD Books in Brooklyn (here’s our video remix contest), and thence to Philly, Bethesda, Edmonton, and many other US and Canadian cities (here’s the whole schedule). Be there, or be unprepared for the end-times!
Hey, Naperville, IL! I’ll be speaking and signing at Anderson’s Bookshop tonight at 7PM, in part two of the Chicagoland leg of my Pirate Cinema tour, which wraps up tomorrow night at the Evanston Public Library. Anderson’s is one of the nation’s great indie bookstores, ranking in my books with the likes of Powell’s, and they’re especially committed to kids’ and YA books, doing tons of outreach to schools across the midwest. I hope you’ll come out tonight and show them the love they’ve earned! After Chicago, I go to NYC for Comic-Con and an appearance at WORD in Brooklyn (check out the video remix contest) and then on to Philly, Bethesda, Edmonton and many other cities — check the full schedule for more.
I’m delighted to announce that the Humble Ebook Bundle is live! Based on the wildly successful Humble Indie Bundles for distributing video games on a name-your-price basis, the Humble Ebook Bundle is a name-your-price collection of awesome entertainment that also helps you support three great charities.
The Humble Ebook Bundle boasts eight science fiction and fantasy books by Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, Lauren Beukes, Kelly Link, Paolo Bacigalupi, Mercedes Lackey, and me (!). Name your price for these great books (you’ll need to pay more than the average to date for the Scalzi and Gaiman) and then choose how much of your payment to divert to our chosen charities: Child’s Play (games for children’s hospitals), EFF (defending your digital rights) and the Science Fiction Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund (saving sf writers from medical ruin). The books come in a variety of formats for all ereaders, and there is no DRM!
The previous Bundles have raised over $7,250,000 for charity, and also demonstrated that creators and their audiences can cooperate with one another, eschewing digital rights management and trusting one another to do the right thing.
I’m especially excited that my latest novel, Pirate Cinema, is part of the Bundle. Tor Books were fantastic about giving me permission to add a new release title — it’s only been out for a week! — to this experimental Bundle. Tor is also donating its share of the proceeds to the SFWA medical fund. There is no better way to reward Tor and these authors for saying no to DRM and restrictive user-agreements, and no better way to support the writers you love, than to buy this Bundle.
I volunteered to curate this Bundle, and I’m incredibly proud of the collection we assembled. You’ve got two weeks to take advantage of this promotion, and there’s more surprises to come!
I’m delighted to announce that the Humble Ebook Bundle is live! Based on the wildly successful Humble Indie Bundles for distributing video games on a name-your-price basis, the Humble Ebook Bundle is a name-your-price collection of awesome entertainment that also helps you support three great charities.
The Humble Ebook Bundle boasts seven science fiction and fantasy books by Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, Lauren Beukes, Kelly Link, Paolo Bacigalupi, and me (!). Name your price for these great books (you’ll need to pay more than the average to date for the Scalzi and Gaiman) and then choose how much of your payment to divert to our chosen charities: Child’s Play (games for children’s hospitals), EFF (defending your digital rights) and the Science Fiction Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund (saving sf writers from medical ruin). The books come in a variety of formats for all ereaders, and there is no DRM!
The previous Bundles have raised over $7,250,000 for charity, and also demonstrated that creators and their audiences can cooperate with one another, eschewing digital rights management and trusting one another to do the right thing.
I’m especially excited that my latest novel, Pirate Cinema, is part of the Bundle. Tor Books were fantastic about giving me permission to add a new release title — it’s only been out for a week! — to this experimental Bundle. Tor is also donating its share of the proceeds to the SFWA medical fund. There is no better way to reward Tor and these authors for saying no to DRM and restrictive user-agreements, and no better way to support the writers you love, than to buy this Bundle.
I volunteered to curate this Bundle, and I’m incredibly proud of the collection we assembled. You’ve got two weeks to take advantage of this promotion, and there’s more surprises to come!
Hey, Deerfield, IL! I’ll be at the Deerfield High School Auditorium tonight at 7PM for the latest stop in my Pirate Cinema tour. I’ve got two other stops in the Chicago area: tomorrow, it’s Anderson’s Books in Naperville; on Thursday it’s the Evanston Public Library. From there, I go to NYC for Comic-Con and an appearance at WORD in Brooklyn (check out our mashup video contest!), and then to Philiadelphia and many other cities in the US and Canada. Here’s the whole schedule. Be there or be oblong!
