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With a Little Help

This article is about a short story collection. For the Beatles song, see With a Little Help from My Friends.

With a Little Help: An Experiment in Publishing (CreateSpace, 2010, ISBN 1-4565-7634-8) is a collection consisting of mostly previously published science fiction short stories and novellas by Cory Doctorow, with one new short story.[1][2] This is Doctorow's third published collection, following Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. Each story includes an afterword by the author, and the anthology includes an introduction by Jonathan Coulton and an afterword by Russell Galen.

With a Little Help
First edition
AuthorCory Doctorow
Cover artistPablo Defendini
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Publication date
October 11, 2010
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN1-4565-7634-8

The book is notable for being published under the author's own imprint, rather than with a traditional book publisher, and for its DRM-free digital audiobook and ebook editions being sold on a name-your-own-price basis, with the revenue from the book being publicly disclosed on the author's website.[3]

Contents

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  • "Introduction," by Jonathan Coulton
  • "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" (Locus Award Finalist for Novelette, 2009[4])
  • "The Right Book"
  • "Other People's Money"
  • "Scroogled"
  • "Human Readable" (Locus Recommended Reading List (Novellas), 2005[5])
  • "Liberation Spectrum"
  • "Power Punctuation!"
  • "Visit the Sins"
  • "Constitutional Crisis"
  • "Pester Power"
  • "Chicken Little"
  • "Epoch"
  • "I'm Only In It For the Money," by Russell Galen

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Cory Doctorow: Bugging In by Francesca Myman (2017)
  2. ^ Sci-Fi's Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction published by NPR (2010)
  3. ^ Raets, Stefan (2011-03-11). "The Experiment Behind Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  4. ^ locusmag (2009-04-27). "2009 Locus Award Finalists". Locus Online. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. ^ "Locus Online: Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2005". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
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