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Lose yourself in the visionary fiction of Cory Doctorow, the celebrated author and digital rights activist known for his masterful explorations of the intersection of tech and society. And help support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with your purchase.
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Wow, Humble has really gone downhill after being acquired. Make sure you change the default split, they’ve made it harder to find! There’s an “Adjust Donation” button where you can choose to put more of your money to charity, rather than Humble and the book publisher.
By default, they’re only giving the EFF ninety cents of your $18 purchase. That’s insulting. And they still have the gall to put up a “leaderboard” for people that paid extra, but probably only 5% of their money went to charity if they didn’t think to change the split. What assholes.
There’s also a minimum amount that goes to Humble itself, and they manipulate the scale to make it look like it’s less. E.g. at 25€ the minimum that goes to Humble is 7.50€, but it looks like ~4€ compared to the publisher and charity bars.
Ooooh you’re right! Those fuckers
They really pissed me off with their Terry Prachet bundle a few months ago. Only in the small text did it state the books had kobo DRM. I’ve been buying bundles for a decade and never had to worry about DRM before so I didn’t even think to look for it.
Wowwww that’s especially insulting considering that everything from Humble used to be DRM-free. I have HUNDREDS of games in my Humble library from the golden years. But most of their stuff doesn’t interest me nowadays.
Wtf. Thanks for highlighting this.
Not that these are not worth the money because they definitely are, but he gives his books away for free online on his own website. https://craphound.com/ is the site.
Do yourself a favor and read Walkaway. My favorite book. The structure is a bit of a departure from Doctorow’s other books. More like Kim Stanley Robinson in that there is a group of characters but the real main character is the birth of a post scarcity society.
That bundle was an instant buy for me. My only hesitation was that I already own a few of the books, but for that price you can’t go wrong. Lost Cause and Red Team Blues are fantastic!
Loved Red Team Blues, I’m going to have to check out Lost Cause.
If you loved Red Team Blues, also check out The Bezzle. It’s not in this bundle, but it’s the recently released prequel to Red Team Blues.
Thx, will definitely check it out.
Anyone read them? How are they?
They’re pretty good. He has a very clear, very technically detailed style. Good solid mystery writing. Kind of like a poor man’s William Gibson. After reading a two page segment of red team blues where Doctorow explains keypair encryption I described him to my wife as “Tom Clancy level detail for computers and the internet” not that Clancy is good, but his stuff is that detailed.
So should I read William Gibson instead?
I can’t tell you if you should read William Gibson instead, but I can definitely tell you that you should read William Gibson
They’re FOSS competence porn and wish fulfillment fantasy. I’m 100% on board with his politics and ideas, but the stories are a bit weak.
They’re fun though.
They’re FOSS competence porn
Exactly the kind of porn youngsters leading to become adults should read, IMO.
I’d like to know as well
The short answer is, yes, his work is very good.
