Exploding The Phone

I'm delighted to announce that my book on the history of phone phreaking, Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teens and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell, will be published this February by Grove/Atlantic.  It will be available in both hardback and ebook form at that time.  The official web site is at http://explodingthephone.com.

Steve Wozniak was kind enough to contribute a really cool foreword and early reviews of the book have been wonderful.  I'm particularly proud of this one:

"The definitive account of the first generation of network hackers … At turns a technological love story, a counter cultural history and a generation-spanning epic, Exploding the Phone is obsessively researched and told with wit and clarity. It captures a moment in time that might otherwise have been lost forever."—Kevin Poulsen, Wired news editor and author of Kingpin

As we collectively hold our breath and twiddle our thumbs waiting for the book release in February :-), here are a couple of things you can do:

Pre-order it from either Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million, or ask your local bookseller (maybe via Indiebound) to pre-order it for you.

Spread the word however you like – like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, post something about the book on your blog, or talk it up the old fashioned way, face to face over coffee or a beer.

I will be doing a nationwide book tour in February and will update this blog and the web site when I have dates and places.

Thank you for your continued interest and support.  It has been quite a journey to get to this point. I can't wait until the blasted thing is actually published and you all get to read it!

Phil

Comments

[Ron Baakkonen]

Congratulations, Phil, this has "Instant Classic" written all over it. I've already pre-ordered my copy at Amazon. So when does the "untold" part of the untold story get told? ;)