📚 spreading the word about the Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle 📚

Cory Doctorow is one of my favorite authors, and I’ve also (mostly) appreciated the work of Humble Bundle over the past decade. When I learned this weekend that there’s an ongoing bundle of Doctorow’s fiction, I was ecstatic. The only thing that I was disappointed about is that I’ve already bought so many of these titles… however, that still wasn’t enough to stop me from buying all 18 items (it helps that while I own many of these already, most of the ones I own are in formats rather than epub, so now I’m a multimodal owner). As a plus, this bundle benefits the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a great organization that Doctorow has done a lot of work for.

The bundle contains a number of books that I’ve written about previously:

• The Lost Cause (review here, a hopeful book about responding to the climate crisis. Not my favorite of his novels, but worth a read.
• Red Team Blues, a book so enjoyable that I read and reviewed it twice last year (here and here; also just finished the sequel). This is a great look at big tech and social inequalities—and it’s really fun to read.
• Poesy the Monster Slayer is not a book that I’ve reviewed, but I definitely checked it out from the library for kiddo to read—perhaps when she was too little for it. I don’t remember much of it except that it was fun.
• Radicalized is a collection of four amazing short stories, which I posted about after checking it out from the library back in 2019. I use the first story, Unauthorized Bread to teach my students about what it means to own a digital device.
• Walkaway may be my favorite book of all time? It certainly was in 2023, when I read it twice. I’ve written enough about it that I’m just going to point you to the aggregation page for that tag instead of linking to everything separately. I have had a quasi-religious experience with this book and plan to reread it several times over my life.
• All the books in the Little Brother series. I don’t know if the original has held up over the years, but I still enjoyed it last year. It’s been a while since I read the first sequel (and I think it’s my least favorite?), but Attack Surface is an excellent book that course corrects the series for the 2020s. I really ought to revisit that one.

There are also a lot of Doctorow books I haven’t read (or haven’t read in ages and have forgotten entirely about), so I think I’ll get a lot of this bundle—and encourage everyone to check it out, too.

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• Red Team Blues
• Poesy the Monster Slayer
• Radicalized
• Unauthorized Bread
• Walkaway
• Little Brother series
• Little Brother
• Homeland
• Attack Surface