[Doctorow-L] Personalized, signed copies of Little Brother/Homeland, with an intro by Ed Snowden

[Cory Doctorow]

During this month's uprisings, I've heard from hundreds of people who
wrote to tell me that they're reminded of my novels Little Brother and
Homeland, books in which youth-led uprising meet overwhelming,
militarized force and high-tech surveillance.

Often, people praise me for some kind of prescience in writing these
books; but as with so much science fiction, what looks like prediction
is actually observation. Cops have been ratcheting up surveillance and
militarization for longer than I've been writing.

I find this trend every bit as alarming as you do. The closer I observe
it, the more worried I become, especially as the private sector becomes
more and more central to the totalitarian project .

At that point, you're not just fighting systemic racism and paranoia in
law enforcement. Private sector procurements turn that into a chimera
where gladhanding commissioned salesfores offer junkets, massages, cash
and gear to cops who buy spy tech.

They recruit sports stars as spokespeople (and offer them shares in the
company):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/eff-challenges-ring-spokesperson-shaq-over-privacy-concerns

Their billionaire owners threaten reporters who disclose their role in
helping governments violate human rights and use attack lawyers to
secure misleading "retractions."

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/14/yana-peel-uk-rights-advocate-serpentine-nso-spyware-pegasus

Periodically this boils over and I write a new Little Brother. The next
one, Attack Surface, is about a spy-tech hacker who realizes she's been
on the wrong side of things when her friend's Oakland BLM chapter is
targeted by the tools she developed.

https://read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksurfacepreordercampaign/

In anticipation of that release, on Jul 7, Tor Books is publishing an
omnibus edition of Little Brother and Homeland, which Snowden - who
knows firsthand what it means to switch from spying on people to
defending them from spying - wrote an amazing intro for.

My local sf/horror/fantasy bookstore, Dark Delicacies, is offering
signed, personalized copies of the book, which you can preorder here:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html

They're hanging in there, despite having been kicked out of their home
of 25 years by a greedy landlord (who still hasn't managed to rent their
old space, and may he lose his shirt), and despite the pandemic. I'm so
pleased to be able to find a way to support them.

Dark Delicacies is also offering personalized, signed copies of my first
picture book, Poesy the Monster Slayer, which comes out the next week:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/04/cross-burnings/#pw

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