The audiobook version of With a Little Help feature readings by Neil Gaiman, Mur Lafferty, Wil Wheaton, Leo Laporte, Emily Hurson, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Hugh AD Spencer, Mary Robinette Kowal, JC Hutchins, Roy Trumbull, Jonathan Coulton, Spider Robinson, Jesse Brown, and Russell Galen, mastered by John Taylor Williams of Wryneck Studios.
The DRM-free audiobooks below are provided on a name-your-price basis. You can pay any time — before or after you download.
As a guide, the average donation to date is $11.75; the smallest was $0.50, and the largest was $200.
Here are links to the audio-files of the audiobook in five editions: a high-bitrate MP3, a high-bitrate Ogg, a lower-bitrate MP3 with a podcast bumper (especially for inclusion in your podcast, which I heartily encourage you to do!), losslessly compressed Ogg Speex files, and enormous, uncompressed WAVs. These were all mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also wrote the original music. John runs Wryneck Studios, an independent sound engineering firm in Washington, DC.
Podcasters are also invited to use this great 60-second promo that Scott Sigler made (thanks, Scott!).
- Podcast of all MP3 files
- Download all MP3s in one ZIP file
- Download all OGGs in one ZIP file
- Download all files as OGG Speex in one ZIP file (Thanks, Stephen Paul Weber!)
- Download all podcast-ready MP3s in one ZIP file
- Download all WAVs in one ZIP file
- Download all stories as one big M4B file, suitable for iOS devices (thanks, J Devitt!)
- Introduction by Jonathan Coulton:
MP3 | Ogg | WAV - The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
(read by Hugh AD Spencer)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - The Right Book
(read by Neil Gaiman)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Other Peoples’ Money
(read by Mur Lafferty)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Scroogled
(read by Wil Wheaton)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Human Readable
(read by Spider Robinson)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Liberation Spectrum
(read by Leo Laporte)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Power Punctuation!
(read by Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Visit the Sins
(read by Roy Trumbull)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Constitutional Crisis
(read by JC Hutchins)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Pester Power
(read by Mary Robinette Kowal)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Chicken Little
(read by Emily Hurson)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - Epoch
(read by Jesse Brown)
MP3 | Ogg | Podcast-ready MP3 | WAV - I’m Only In It for the Money
(read by Russell Galen
MP3 | Ogg | WAV
iPhone/iPod M4B version of the book: http://hotfile.com/dl/110886437/f4ea713/With_a_Little_Help.7z.html (~360MB)
P.S. Fell free to make as many mirrors as you like – before hotfile decide the have to delete the file due to copyright violation …
How about putting some file sizes up? Would be nice. Cheers.
Cory, thanks so much for these. I have a cousin who had some pretty significant surgery earlier this year. She’s a semi-geek, trained as a geneticist, and had never heard of your work. Since she had to take a few weeks off from her normal mountain biking/climbing activities, she asked friends and family for recommended non-work related, geek-friendly audio- and e-books. I pointed her towards all your stuff. I don’t know what she thought of anything, but I do know she downloaded some of these, which she wouldn’t have done were you not so generous in making it easily accessible.
If she liked the books, I know she’ll donate, because she’s that kind of person. I’m saving my pennies to I can donate soon. Previously, I’ve just purchased some paper copies for my kids’ school libraries, but I want to send _something_ your way directly as well.
Thanks for the M4B audiobook version. Much prefer a single file with chapter marks than a separate file for each story.
If you hadn’t made one, I would have. ;-)
Mary Robinette Kowal has the most sensual voice ever. I’m in love. :)
Wow, you rock … open culture FTW. You will get respect, money and good karma.
Best regards, Mr. Doctorow!
I just happened to be listening to an old episode of,”the stuff you should know podcast,” and they mentioned a startling governmental experiment where an entire french town was fed bread laced with lsd. I proceded to google the subject for further info and found that the first article I opened was written by none other than the author of my favorite all time book, little brother. in the corner of the article I saw a list of your books an homeland was among them, i was psyched because I had checked for a sequel not long ago and found nothing. Your book changed my life man. what I wanna be who I wanna become, everything because of marcus yallow. it brought a tear to my eye when I saw that i could walk in his shoes yet again without having to knuckle under to the man. you rock. thank you.