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
Author	Cory Doctorow
Cover artist	Pablo Defendini
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publication date	October 11, 2010
Publication place	United States
ISBN	1-4565-7634-8

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

• "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