Cory Doctrow Thread

[Mangara]

Born
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 17, 1971

Website
http://www.craphound.com

Twitter username
doctorow

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Nonfiction​

Canadian blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books.

Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.

Awards

• 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
• 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
• 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
• 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
• 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award

Novels

• Down and out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor. 2003. ISBN 0-7653-0436-8.
• Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor. 2004. ISBN 0-7653-0759-6.
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Tor. 2005. ISBN 0-7653-1278-6.
• Little Brother. Tom Doherty Associates. 2008. ISBN 0-7653-1985-3.
• Makers. Tor. 2009. ISBN 0-7653-1279-4.
• For The Win. Tor. 2010. ISBN 0-7653-2216-1.
• The Rapture of the Nerds. Tor. September 2012. ISBN 0-765-32910-7.(with Charles Stross)
• Pirate Cinema. Tor. October 12, 2012. ISBN 0-7653-2908-5.
• Homeland. Tor. February 5, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7653-3369-8.

 

[Mangara]

Anyone picked anything up by Cory?

I'm currently 100 pages into Little Brother and so far it is very cutting edge. It's near future speculative fiction that is no longer speculative. A few of the events so far have happened in our world too.