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Nanowhere with a Creative Commons License

I originally released Nanowhere under a Creative Commons license in the spring of 2006, and it was on the Lykeion Books site, downloadable and sharable for several years. Cory Doctorow was nice enough to blog about it on BoingBoing, and things really took off. I stopped keeping track after 10,000 downloads.  I pulled the book in 2009, intending to do a quick edit and rewrite, which I didn't end up finishing until the middle of last year.  Anyway, it's done and back up under an updated CC license--basically the latest version of the CC 2.5 license with which I released the first edition of Nanowhere.  If you're interested in reading it on your Kindle, nook, iPad, Fire, Reader, etc., it's also available for .99c at Amazon, B&N, and other places--see links below.  I have two official formats, ePub and Mobi.  If you convert it to something else, please let me know, and I'll post it!

This edition of Nanowhere, including the cover art and illustrations, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, which means you can share it, remix it (for example, you can reformat it or translate it), and you can share the works you make from this one, but you cannot make money from the things you do with Nanowhere, and everything you derive from it has to be sharable and usable in a non-commercial way that observes everything that’s allowed or not allowed under this license.

If you're new to Nanowhere, see the description below.

Nanowhere
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Nanowhere... it's a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hit-men with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts.

Here's a clip of Cory Doctorow's kind words on Boing Boing:

Chris Howard has released an...interesting and well-written...sf thriller called Nanowhere along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book's characters ...

Alexander Shoaler and Kaffia Lang grow up in the years following a second civil war in America.  Dr. Straff, the nanotech visionary hides from justice in a small New Hampshire town.  He's universally reviled for rising to importance with the prior regime...

 

When Americans thought of Dr. Ernest Straff, they thought of bodies stacked next to dumpsters in alleyways and technicians draining corpses into blood-type bags and selling it off to high-bidders.

 

Dr. Straff has made recent technological breakthroughs, and there are some who have not forgotten old debts or see the restoration of their former power in the new technology the old doctor has developed.

 

Follow Alex's struggle to save Kaffia's life, dodging death squads, and negotiating with the sadistic Chairman of the Rost Institute for the release of one of the worst of the prior regime's mass-murderers.

 

I wrote Nanowhere for the young adult fiction market, which means the torture consists of various methods of bone breaking without getting into the truly revolting stuff.  (Just kidding.  Some of it is revolting).

 

Details on this Creative Commons license here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Nanowhere by Chris Howard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://www.saltwaterwitch.com/#nanowhere. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.saltwaterwitch.com/permissions.

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Nanowhere is back!

The second edition of my tech thriller Nanowhere is out, although the official release--in print--won't be until next month or early 2012.  The ebook's available right now at Amazon and B&N on the Kindle, Fire, Nook, and any device with the Kindle or nook apps.  (More eBook formats and channels to follow).

This edition has a bunch of edits over the original version, which came out in 2005, and includes two of the research reports by the character John Andreden at the back of the book.

The eBook cover is on the left and the print book is below.

Here's some of the back cover copy:

Nanowhere... it's a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hit-men with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts.

Here's a clip of Cory Doctorow's kind words on Boing Boing:

Chris Howard has released an...interesting and well-written...sf thriller called Nanowhere along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book's characters ...

 

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Skateboard Technology: Method is at the edge

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. And wherever he goes it'll be on a Method skateboard.
  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Very true. Awesome words by Ralph. Well, except that last line. I added that, but it's implied.  Come on. Emerson was a longboarder from way back.

Method Skateboard out in California is breaking ground and rolling smoothly over it with their negative camber trucks. "NC Truck takes advantage of a well known racing enhancement called a Negative Camber Angle (NC). Camber angles are used in the design of high performance vehicles like the Formula 1 and drifting motorsports rides".

Check out Method Skateboards and their variety of decks, longboards, hand-crafted decks, performance trucks, completes, wheels, hardware, and more.

The Conspiracy line of decks "are made with the highest quality cold pressed laminated Canadian Maple.  Decks are formed into custom concave and convex cambers with a variety of nose and tail kicks to choose from.  Each deck includes custom positoned wheel wells, high quality screen transfer graphics and custom grip tape.  These are great boards for campus cruising, concrete surfing or a late night parking garage session"

Oh, by the way, I designed one of the Conspiracy Decks, so of course this is my favorite: ZEV Zero Emisions Vehicle, smoke - complete

Emerson sidewalk surfing--old school: