Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalistand science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blogBoing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and aproponent of the Creative Commons organisation, and usessome of their licenses for his books. Some common themes ofhis work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney,and post-scarcity economics.With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I've published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it's all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it's time to try something new. With a Little Help consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for "Epoch"