Pirate Cinema (novel)

Pirate Cinema

Author	Cory Doctorow
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Media type	Book
ISBN	978-0-765-32908-0

Pirate Cinema is a novel by Cory Doctorow. It was released in October 2012. The novel is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license and is available free on the author's website.

The novel is set in a dystopian near-future Britain where the government is effectively controlled by media corporations. The main character, Trent McCauley, has had his internet access cut for reassembling downloaded films on his computer and, living rough on the streets of London, is trying to fight the introduction of a new draconian copyright law.

Pirate Cinema won the 2013 Prometheus Award.^[1]

The US hardcover is 384 pages long.^[2]

This book was also featured as an e-book in the Humble eBook Bundle.^[3] The bundle raised more than $1.2 million, with customers paying an average amount of $14.29 for the bundle.^[4]

References

↑ "July, 2013: Prometheus Award Winners".
↑ Doctorow, Cory, Pirate Cinema, p. 416, ISBN 978-0-765-32908-0
↑ http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/33237485887/introducing-the-humble-ebook-bundle
↑ http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281031-prior-bundle-statistics

External links

Official Book Page on Cory Doctorow's website
Online Version of the book

Cory Doctorow

Novels	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005) Makers (2009) The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Charles Stross)

Young-adult novels	Little Brother (2008) For the Win (2010) Pirate Cinema (2012) Homeland (2013)

Short story collections	A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2003) Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (2007) With a Little Help (2010)

Non-fiction	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (2001) Content (2008) Context (2011) Information Doesn't Want to Be Free (2014)

Other	Boing Boing Whuffie /usr/bin/god (canceled)

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