- An international coalition of sci-fi writers (Doctorow, Yu, etc.) and literary fiction writers (Keret, Bender, Coover, Nutting, etc) come together for a short fiction anthology about the surveillance state http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/watchlist/ 31 comments books
- Get to know the new Cuba: a new anthology, published this year, of Cuban sci-fi and gritty drug stories by Cuban millennials, demanded Year Zero, and they got it http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cuba-splinters/ 4 comments books
- "...for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets." http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/when-google-met-wikileaks/ 17 comments technology
- The woman who got pulled out for heckling Obama today is Medea Benjamin, the celebrated author of "Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control" and a former UN economist http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/drone-warfare/ 15 comments politics
- The TLDR of the history of the defeat of SOPA (a blueprint for defeating CISPA) as told by Aaron Swartz, Alex Ohanian, Kim Dotcom, Ron Paul, David Segal, Mike Masnick, and others... http://www.orbooks.com/hackingpolitics_tldr.html 4 comments technology