Comments on: Cover for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:03:00 +0000

As a professional sign painter (and fan) I feel compelled to advise Tor to Lose The Cover Font. It’s pointlessly “busy”.

By: pKp

pKp — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:23:00 +0000

Awesome ! Can’t wait.

By: Joe Huey

Joe Huey — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Cory, really liked Little Brother, my daughter liked it at 12, then reread it as a HS freshman and loved the skype session w/ you last fall (she goes to HS in Littleton, CO

By: despralynn

despralynn — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:59:00 +0000

I am so excited for this I can barely think straight! Hooray!

By: desult

desult — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Does the CC License cover the cover art or is it just the text? Where is the licensing information at?

By: Stewart Berntson

Stewart Berntson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Definitely need to take Feb. 5 and 6 off from work — Cory, your books are the only ones I’m sure to read the day they come out, and (despite having read it 4-5 times) I can’t put down Little Brother any time I pick it up.

By: Phil Gaulrapp

Phil Gaulrapp — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Are you at all worried that consumers may confuse your book with the Showtime series Homeland? I would think a book with that title would be a literary adaptation of the series.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:13:00 +0000

It would have been good for it become part of the conversation before this fall’s election, considering the likely topics.

Unfortunately, I guess the subject will still be all too relevant in February.

By: CaptainPedge

CaptainPedge — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:03:00 +0000

bu bu… FEBRUARY!?

By: Zachary Kurtz

Zachary Kurtz — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:02:00 +0000

you’re in for a treat! Make sure you check out Cory’s podcast where he reads a lot of his fiction out loud. It’s great stuff!

By: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:43:00 +0000

There are lots of reasons — not least the need to do solicitations to bookstores, etc — but in this case, it’s because I had so many other novels in production, and it makes sense to space them out.

By: Shibi_SF

Shibi_SF — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Yay!

Congratulations!

By: strugglngwriter

strugglngwriter — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Little Brother is one of my favorite novels. I recommend it to people all the time. This (a sequel) makes me so happy. February is a long time away though.

By: septimar

septimar — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:08:00 +0000

Warren Ellis once explained on his site that there are basically only 2 seasons for publishing, so new releases come generally in 6 month periods apart from each other. I don’t know the specific reason for it either, though.

By: John Vance

John Vance — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:07:00 +0000

Congrats! Little Brother was marvelous, and it was important. I’m excited to see more in this vein.

By: brec

brec — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:58:00 +0000

To expand on CaptainPedge’s comment (first one above): why is publication lead time so long — not just for this book, but in general?

By: jeligula

jeligula — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:42:00 +0000

Dang, Cory. With all your prolific posting on Boing Boing, I was wondering if you had the time to write prose. I guess this is my answer. You are making the rest of us look lazy, you know.

By: Nicky G

Nicky G — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:54:00 +0000

That is an AWESOME cover! And now I will read the first of the series. I’ve actually never read any of your books, methinks it’s time to start.

By: CaptainPedge

CaptainPedge — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Or other, more remote parts of teh UK?

By: Thomas Walpole

Thomas Walpole — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Are there any launch events planned? In/around London?

EDIT, BLURB SPOILERS, Wild, mad fanboy guessing: Also, calling it that the politicin turns out to be corrupt. Maybe some of mashas files are incriminating to him?
Maybe some interesting morral questions ther (the world should know, but i think this guy can make a difference? Maybe a sex scandle/similar, so it’s not actually dammaging to the politician.

Or maybe I’m just jaded by assange of late. Though it does seem to be a Wikileaks kind of story.

Now I want to go write fic. This may have fic before it’s released. It’s a sign you’ve made it to the big leagues.

By: Lucas Jarche

Lucas Jarche — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

I’m so glad you’ve decided to continue the series. It was the reason I started reading boingboing and I don’t regret it to this day. As a 17 year-old, I find it has struck closer to home than any other book in the same genre.

By: CaptainPedge

CaptainPedge — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:25:00 +0000

FEBRUARY!?