I originally released Nanowhere under a Creative Commons license in the spring of 2006, and it was on the Lykeion Books site, downloadable and sharable for several years. Cory Doctorow was nice enough to blog about it on BoingBoing, and things really took off. I stopped keeping track after 10,000 downloads.  I pulled the book in 2009, intending to ( Read more... )

Nanowhere...it's a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, frustrated hit-men with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts.

I just updated my SF novel Nanowhere--mostly tweaking, corrected some ( Read more... )

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Joe and Al

DR. ERNEST STRAFF wasn’t surprised when the jumptroopers tackled him in his dining room, stuffed his head in a bag, zip-tied his wrists and ankles, dragged him into a clearing in the forest next to his house, and cabled him up into a hovering gunship. He just thought or hoped or wished he had had more time.

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I'm out in the Bay Area on business, talking to Creative Commons, Six Apart, and a couple other companies and orgs about commercial licensing of blogs, images, video, etc.   I love San Francisco.  Checked into the Hotel Nikko late Monday and the manager upgraded me to an Imprial Suite.  How cool is that?  Even cooler than you might think.  A room ( Read more... )

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I'll be out in California most of next week, and really looking forward to the CC tech Summit at Google next Wednesday.

More about it here:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_Technology_Summit_2008-06-18

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...and I come out pretty good.

"[Little Brother] kind of reminded me of Nanowhere, only without the emphasis on philosophy and magical talking AI foglets. In fact now I mention it, I'm pretty sure that I preferred Nanowhere: at no point in Little Brother did you feel that the characters' lives were in mortal peril (though that may well have been ( Read more... )