I’m coming to Zurich next week to do a series of high-school lectures in connection with the German edition of Little Brother, and while I’m in town, I’ve scheduled a free lecture, organised by local free culture and Creative Commons activists. It’s at 8PM on December 6, at the Kunstraum Walcheturm. Hope to see you there!

Fantasy literature doyenne Terri Windling is in the midst of a serious financial and health crisis and her friends are pitching in to run a fundraising auction for her benefit. My contribution: naming rights for a character in the sequel to Little Brother, to be published by Tor Teen in late 2012/early 2013.

Little Brother Live, coming to Custom Made Theatre from Pauline Luppert on Vimeo.

San Francisco’s Custom Made Theatre Company is mounting a sweet, low-budget production of Little Brother, and they’re looking to raise the funds for a high-quality video projector, which the playwright, Josh Costello, says “would make a huge difference.”

Clemens Schaber, a reader in Austria, converted Christian Wöhrl’s German fan-translation of Little Brother to a nicely formatted ePub. Thanks, Clemens!

Two bits of glad tidings: first, Charlie Stross announces that we’ve turned in the manuscript for our collaborative, post-Singularity comic novel Rapture of the Nerds; second, my agent Russ Galen has sold Homeland, the sequel to my 2008 novel Little Brother, to Tor, in “a significant deal.”

Josh Costello has adapted my novel Little Brother for stage in San Francisco (this is new adaptation, unrelated to the production that ran in Chicago a few years back). The show opens in January, 2012, and he’s just gone into production; he’s keeping running notes of his progress at a blog called LITTLE BROTHER LIVE.

The Random House audiobook edition of my novel Little Brother is a free MP3 download this week through Sync, a program that develops the audience of teen/YA audiobook listeners (it’s paired with Kafka’s The Trial, which is pretty cool). The file itself can only be downloaded with a proprietary downloader from Overdrive, which I couldn’t run under WINE on my GNU/Linux system, so I’m not sure how the process goes, but once you’ve actually gotten the file, it’s yours to keep for personal use as a plain-vanilla MP3 with no DRM.

Eleventh graders at Oakland International High School read my novel Little Brother and produced a fantastic school reading kit with chapter summaries, student discussions, student-made comic strips, and further topics for classroom discussion. It’s a tremendous piece of work, and I’m grateful to the young people in Sailaja Suresh’s class.

This week, I was delighted to learn that my novel For the Win was one of three young adult novels selected for the the Kansas National Education Association’s Kansas State Reading Circle list; and then to learn that the Vermont School Library Association, Vermont Library Association and the Vermont Department of Libraries had awarded the state’s Green Mountain Book Award to my novel Little Brother, this being a readers’ choice award for students in grades 9-12. My sincere thanks to the readers, teachers and librarians who’ve chosen my books for these honors — they mean the world to me.

Thanks to Ludwik Stawowy for sending along the cover for the Polish edition of Little Brother, AKA Maly Brat!