With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow
Look what arrived today (apologies for the poor quality pictures you're about to see). Yes, something wrapped in a coffee burlap bag. Which contains a rectangular hexahedron wrapped in rice paper sealed with stickers. It's a book! A quality-looking hardback book emblazoned with a shiny faceless figure donning a cape and glasses, and there's a strip of bright orange extending from the spine of the book. There's also a 4GB SDHC memory card stuck to the front. As you can see it's the special edition of With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow. This book is number 76 of 250. Let's have a look inside... We appear to have a letter addressed to "Bear" from Melissa Frain from Tor (no, not the Tor project, Tor the sci-fi folk). Bear? Anyway, it's a request for the review of a manuscript. And at the back we have... A sketch of what appears to be either a woman with a birthday cake stuck to her head, or a fairytale princess or some such variety of character...