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Humble Ebook Bundle: Name your price for seven bestselling, ass-kicking sf novels

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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!

Humble Ebook Bundle

Coming to Deerfield, IL tonight

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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!

Review:

Tor.com

Pirate Cinema successfully follows the same pattern as his previous YA novels, mixing an adventurous, whip smart young main character with a relevant socio-political theme and wrapping all of it in a fast-paced, entertaining story.

Stefan Raets, Tor.com
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Publishers Weekly

Running away to London, Trent falls in with a group of young, high-tech squatters and anarchists who begin a David vs. Goliath war against the establishment, hoping to free the Net for creative use by the common people. Doctorow, a noted free Internet advocate (and PW columnist), handles his topic with great passion, creating engaging and believably geeky characters who share his fervor for both the Web and the new forms of art and communication it has made possible.

Publishers Weekly
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BN Review

Perhaps the most original theme, however, relates to the definition of creativity. Such a rethinking of this central and eternal trait of our species lies at the heart of this book, which strives to find a place in the over-regulated world for maximal expression of individual human spirit. When, midway through the book, Trent generously defines creativity in its baseline form as “doing something that isn’t obvious,” the book explodes into new philosophical realms. The outcome is less strident and melodramatic than Little Brother, more balanced and accepting of an imperfect world — while still holding aloft an idealistic torch.

Paul Di Filippo, BN Review
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Booklist

It’s generally accepted that fussing with computers is a narrative buzzkill, yet Doctorow’s unrivaled verisimilitude makes every click as exciting as a band of underdog warriors storming a castle. It’s not exactly Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book (1971), but with its delirious insights into everything from street art to urban exploring to dumpster diving to experimental cinema, it feels damn close.

Daniel Kraus, Booklist
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Kirkus

Rich characters, well-rounded — a success as a story. For computer-savvy kids who like to think.

Kirkus

Pirate Cinema US/Canada tour

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I’m touring Pirate Cinema in the US and Canada through the month of October. Macmillan’s posted the full schedule, and there are stops coming in St Louis, the Bay Area, the LA area, Lansing, Chicagoland, NYC, DC, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Toronto, and Boston. I hope to see you there!