HelloWorld

Purchasing Hello World in US & Canada

Here's an update to the previous version of this post in which I said that Amazon US only stocks expensive copies of Hello World. It's now available at Amazon US again at the proper price of $17. Hooray! North American buyers can also purchase direct from the publishers Raw Nerve Books or the Alternative Bookshop Online or go to Amazon UK 

Or, download it free in PDF format here.

Hello World available as free download

Hello World is now available as a free download from Raw Nerve Books. It was first published in 2004, along with this web complement containing extra materials, and you can still buy the print version.

Now Raw Nerve is providing the pdfs and jacket design on a Creative Commons license. This includes the option to remix the text, so please feel free to make what you wish of it. If you do remix it, please let me know.

Hello World: travels in virtuality by Sue Thomas

Hello World is the story of a life online. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sue Thomas draws on her online travels as well as her physical journeys in the USA, Australia, Spain and England. While the book is non-fiction, it is a direct descendent of Correspondence, Thomas’ extraordinary novel that also deals with the synergies between digital and physical worlds. Like its fictional counterpart, Hello World will trigger feelings in readers of both recognition and irritation and will stimulate debate on the nature of the physical in a wired world for years to come.

comments about Hello World:

" . . . an essential tour guide to the poetics of time, space and gender in the Information Age. A Baedeker to the cyber-realm." Carolyn Guertin

"Sue is a restless figure in a stationary world of words. Embracing digital media for its freedom and life beyond the physical page, her writings fuse the surfaces, textures, histories and interactions of our bodies and minds. She writes the stories of tomorrow, today." Robin Rimbaud / Scanner

" . . . engagingly and warmly written, Hello World combines first-person meditations with a wealth of information. Highly recommended for first-time users and those who want to try dipping their toes into the cyberwaters." N Katherine Hayles

"Sue Thomas has become one of the most innovative thinkers, promoters and facilitators on the Web." Stelarc

A word about physicality...
Since the body is generally absent in cyberspace, we were keen to involve it in the book. Hello World is designed to be pleasurably tactile. It's smaller than most paperbacks - 14.5cm wide x 16.5cm high - and fairly chunky at 2.25cm thick. The jacket is silky smooth. We hope you enjoy handling the volume as much as you enjoy reading it :)

About Sue Thomas

Sue Thomas was born in England in 1951. She is Professor of New Media in the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and a partner in DMU's Institute of Creative Technologies. She is also Course Leader of the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media which she devised with Kate Pullinger.

Hello World is her most recent book. Her other books include the novel Correspondence, a mix of flesh and machine short-listed for several prizes including the Arthur C Clarke Award (London: The Women's Press, 1992; New York: Overlook, 1993)

 

Water, a novel,(New York: Overlook, 1994; UK: Five Leaves, 1995)

and  Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (New York: Overlook, 1994; London: Vintage, 1994).