The Lucky Strike

In the year since its founding—and on a mere shoestring—PM Press has risen to the formidable challenge of publishing and distributing knowledge and entertainment for the struggles ahead. With over 40 releases in 2009, we have published an impressive and stimulating array of literature, art, music, politics, and culture. Using every available medium, we’ve succeeded in connecting those hungry for ideas and information to those putting them into practice.

Friends of PM allows you to directly help impact, amplify, and revitalize the discourse and actions of radical writers, filmmakers, and artists. It provides us with a stable foundation from which we can build upon our early successes and provides a much-needed subsidy for the materials that can’t necessarily pay their own way. You can help make that happen—and receive every new title automatically delivered to your door once a month—by joining as a Friend of PM Press. Here are your options:

•$25 a month: Get all books and pamphlets plus 50% discount on all webstore purchases.

•$25 a month: Get all CDs and DVDs plus 50% discount on all webstore purchases.

•$40 a month: Get all PM Press releases plus 50% discount on all webstore purchases

•$100 a month: Sustainer. Everything plus PM merchandise, free downloads, and 50% discount on all webstore purchases.

Just go to WWW.PMPRESS.ORG to sign up. Your card will be billed once a month, until you tell us to stop. Or until our efforts succeed in bringing the revolution around. Or the financial meltdown of Capital makes plastic redundant. Whichever comes first.

PM

PM PRESS was founded at the end of 2007 by a small collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience. PM cofounder Ramsey Kanaan started AK Press as a young teenager in Scotland almost 30 years ago and, together with his fellow PM Press coconspirators, has published and distributed hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs. Members of PM have founded enduring book fairs, spearheaded victorious tenant organizing campaigns, and worked closely with bookstores, academic conferences, and even rock bands to deliver political and challenging ideas to all walks of life. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake.

We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and nonfiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology - whether that means you are seeing anarchist classics at our bookfair stalls; reading our latest vegan cookbook at the cafe; downloading geeky fiction e-books; or digging new music and timely videos from our website.

PM PRESS is always on the lookout for talented and skilled volunteers, artists, activists and writers to work with. If you have a great idea for a project or can contribute in some way, please get in touch.

PM PRESS

PO Box 23912

Oakland CA 94623

510-658-3906

www.pmpress.org

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards

World Fantasy award

Locus award

John W. Campbell award

“Simply one of our best writers.”

– Gene Wolfe

“One of the finest short story writers around.”

– Locus

“A powerful and consistent fiction voice.”

– New York Times

“Robinson’s writing ranks in the highest levels… ”

– Publishers Weekly

“It’s no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer.”

– Los Angeles Times

“The best nature writer in the U.S. today also happens to write science fiction.”

– The Ends of the Earth

“The foremost writer of literary utopias.”

– Time

PM PRESS OUTSPOKEN AUTHORS SERIES

1. The Left Left Behind

Terry Bisson

2. The Lucky Strike

Kim Stanley Robinson

3. The Underbelly

Gary Phillips

4. Mammoths of the Great Plains

Eleanor Arnason

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