With a Little Help

For my friends, past, present and future. No man is an island.

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"Introduction," written by Jonathan Coulton for this volume

"The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" originally published on Tor.com, August 2008

"The Right Book" originally published in
The Bookseller
, June 2008

"Other People's Money" originally published in
Forbes
, November 2007

"Scroogled" originally published in
Radar
, September 2007

"Human Readable" originally published in
Future Washington
, Ernest Lilley, editor (WSFA Press, 2005)

"Liberation Spectrum" originally published on Salon.com, 2003

"Power Punctuation!" originally published in
Starlight 3
, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor (Tor, 2001)

"Visit the Sins," originally published in
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
, June 1999

"Constitutional Crisis," produced for the Future of the Book Project, 2009

"Pester Power," originally published in
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
, December 2008

"Chicken Little," written for
Gateways,
forthcoming from Tor Books, 2010

"Epoch," commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth for this volume

"I'm Only In It For the Money," written by Russell Galen for this volume

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