My new book on the activist use of distributed denial of service actions is launching this week. Check it out on Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Swarm-Hacktivism-Disobedience/dp/1623564565#> or contact Bloomsbury for an examination copy <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-coming-swarm-9781623564568/>. And if you'll be in New York, Boston, Toronto, or Montreal in the next six weeks, come to one of the awesome book events <http://oddletters.com/2014/10/16/the-coming-swarm-book-tour/> we have scheduled. In *The Coming Swarm*, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted activist tools-petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns and others-find equivalent practices in the online space, is there also room for the tactics of disruption and civil disobedience that are equally familiar from the realm of street marches, occupations, and sit-ins? With a historically grounded analysis, and a focus on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, *The Coming Swarm* uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet. -- oddletters http://oddletters.com/ author of *The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet <http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Swarm-Hacktivism-Disobedience/dp/1623564565#>*