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Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger, columnist, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular computer geek website Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. Doctorow was the Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology. In 2006/2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the University of Southern California. He was named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007 and 2008 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007. Entertainment Weekly has called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." Doctorow is the author of the novels Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and two short story collections, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, and Overclocked. His next novel, Little Brother, portrays hacker kids who fight to restore the Bill of Rights to terrorism-crazed America, and will be published in May 2008. Content is his first nonfiction collection. He lives in London, England. |
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Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
by Cory Doctorow
978-1-61696-048-3 / October 2011 / $14.95 / trade paperback
Also by Cory Doctorow
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
One of the internet’s most celebrated hi-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy makerverse to excoriating Apple for dumbing-down technology while creating an information monopoly, each unique piece is brief, witty, and at the cutting edge of tech. Now a stay-at-home dad as well as an international activist, Doctorow writes as eloquently about creating internet, real-time theater with his daughter as he does in lambasting the corporations that want to limit and profit from inherent intellectual freedoms. Praise for Context"Doctorow makes the complicated accessible throughout this great little guidebook, a GPS for the digital age." -Publishers Weekly "Part Poor Benjamin, part Dr. Spock, Doctorow is by now a wise, trusted guide in this messy—but eminently navigable!—world in which we’ve landed" -Booklist "Context is a great example of why [Doctorow]'s more than just a great novelist." -Tor.com "Context is a deeply interesting and thought-provoking book....The resulting collection is golden: and an absolute must-read for anyone who’s ever asked where all of this technology stuff is heading." -January Magazine "If you are interested in the context of our Internet-centric lives, Context is a must-read collection of essays." -The San Francisco Book Review "there is plenty here to chew over here and will make you think." -SF Crowsnest Praise for Doctorow's first nonfiction collection, Content "Doctorow here proves he's smart, funny, and good at accessibly boiling down issues he's passionate about...a pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking." -Booklist "...more than just insightful, brilliant, and to the point - it's also funny and fun to read." -Electronic Frontier Foundation "If you want to know what's happening at the sharp end of digital publication and new ideas about the relationships between authors and their readers - do yourself a favour and listen to what he has to say." —Mantex "Cory Doctorow's Context is a treat for those who live in the digital world—as well as for those who would like to know more about it." —New York Journal of Books Praise for Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom "...the impressively imagined world of the novel is tricked out in lively prose." —New York Times "Cory Doctorow meshes all of these outlandish ideas into a novel of power and skill. His story is told on many levels, with a surprising complexity and the perfect touch of humor. Like all good science fiction, Doctorow tackles the issues of today, tomorrow. Morality, cloning, socialism, poverty, right to die, freedom of choice, pratfalls of hubris, and the cult of celebrity are all explored in what may be the best debut science-fiction novel since Neuromancer." —Austin Chronicle "Fast, smart, fun and flashy: Cory Doctorow’s 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' is all of the above. Even when science fiction is based on solid predictions, it can demonstrate the pinwheeling pyrotechnics of a first-class fireworks display." —Seattle Times "It would not be an exaggeration to say that Doctorow's work is one of the main reasons I still read science fiction.... A fast, funny, smart, clever book which entertains so well that it's only upon reflection that its surprising sophistication and depths become evident." —Strange Horizons "Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in it. I couldn't put the book down." —Bruce Schneier, Author, Secrets and Lies For A Place So Foreign and Eight More: "As a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek, Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer who can really drill down.... We should all hope and trust that our culture has the guts and moxie to follow this guy. He’s got a lot to tell us." —Bruce Sterling "Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured glasses." —Neil Gaiman, Author of American Gods and Sandman "A Place So Foreign and 8 More is the post-cyberpunk iconoclast’s much anticipated first collection, and it starts with a bang." —Montreal Gazette "As knowledgeable about computers as he is about flea markets, Doctorow uses science fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into some of society's unlighted corners. His best known story, 'Craphound,' tells of a competitive friendship between two junk collectors, one human and one alien; what it says about the uses of the past is no more mysterious than the prices paid for a vintage Coke bottle or an early Barbie doll. Not every attempt to wrest truth from cliche works - but you won't want to miss Doctorow's satiric glance at co-opted dissent among the grade-school set or the insidious horror of his updated Pinocchio tale." —New York Times "Achingly funny...by relentlessly exposing disenchanted Silicon Valley dwellers caught in a military-industrial web of khaki money, Congress-critters and babykiller projects, Doctorow explores the intersection of social concern and technology." —Publishers Weekly "Time travel made fresh. Pinocchio made haunting. Even the tangential ideas, incidental word choices and minor sub-stories crackle with creativity." —Jeff Bezos, Founder, Amazon.com For Eastern Standard Tribe: "Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar - a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)." —William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer "....a satisfying dose of suspense and humor." —San Francisco Chronicle "...Doctorow maintains an unrelenting pace; many readers will find themselves finishing the novel, as I did, in a single sitting." —Toronto Star "At its heart, Tribe is a witty, sometimes acerbic poke in the eye at modern culture. Everything comes under Doctorow's microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way." —Locus Magazine For Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: "Someone Comes to Town is a fantastic example of a fairy tale for grownups, a weird and wonderful piece of 21st century fantasy." —Alterati "A glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." —Gene Wolfe "Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe) treats these and other bizarre images and themes with deadpan wit. In this inventive parable about tolerance and acceptance, he demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and the everyday can coexist." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Cory Doctorow is the apotheosis of what we talk about when we talk about The Web." —SF Site "I found Someone Comes to Town to be a great celebration of life and a novel that manages to be downright scary at times while still utterly resplendent with hope." —Bookslut "Magical realism and literary iconoclasm abound in a novel that should appeal to fans of experimental fiction in a near-future setting." —Library Journal "It's official: Cory Doctorow has become the new Neal Stephenson. Or, rather, he’s become the new early-period Neal Stephenson, since Stephenson himself has moved away from quirky, computer tech-y, zippy future-kitsch. Doctorow began filling the resulting gap with his first novels, Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe. But his latest, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, is his most Stephenson-like novel to date, all bizarre characters, cutting-edge culture, and technological lectures, swirled into a refreshing, compellingly grounded semi-fable." —The Onion AV Club "Doctorow strings together wonderfully witty words into pithy sentences that have no right making as much sense as they do. He brings a powerful but lighthearted magic to a world we very much hope resembles the real world." —Agony Column Overclocked "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present is really good story telling, good extrapolation on present trends. My sysadmins should check out the first story, 'When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.'" —Craig “craigslist” Newmark "In these quirky, brashly engaged 'stories of the future present' Cory Doctorow shows us life from the point-of-view of the plugged-in generation and makes it feel like a totally alien world." —Montreal Gazette "He has a knack for identifying those seminal trends of our current landscape that will in all likelihood determine the shape of our future(s)...." —Sci Fi Weekly "'Overclocked'" is a reminder that we can’t hope to keep up and shouldn't bother. But we do need to keep alert, to keep ourselves caffeinated, to run as fast as we can – if we hope to stay in the same place. Getting ahead? That's, alas, a thing of the past." —NPR "If you want to glimpse the future of copyright policing, video-game sweatshops, robotic intelligence, info war, and how computer geeks will survive the apocalypse, then this collection of shorts is your oracle.... Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation." —Entertainment Weekly "Each short story is an idea bomb with a candy coating of human drama, wrapped in shiny tech tropes and ready to blow your mind. Overclocked is SF info-warfare ammunition of the highest caliber, so load up, move out, and take no prisoners…" —SFRevu "The appealing characters, snappy writing and swift pace will surely tempt the younger and/or geekier sections of the SF audience." —Kirkus Little Brother (forthcoming): "A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane." —Scott Westerfeld, author of Pretties, Uglies, and Extras "I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology — each of which make this book a must-read — but, at the end of it all, I’m haunted by the universality of Marcus's rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it." —Steven C Gould, author of Jumper and Reflex "A worthy younger sibling to Orwell’s 1984, Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary." —Brian K Vaughn, author of Y: The Last Man |
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