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Here's part twenty-one of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.

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Delighted to discover that True Names, the Hugo-nominated novella I co-wrote with Benjamin Rosenbaum, is up for a Sturgeon Award!

Paolo Bacigalupi "The Gambler" Fast Forward 2
Ted Chiang "Exhalation" Eclipse 2
Charles Coleman Finlay "The Political Prisoner" F&SF, August
Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum "True Names" Fast Forward 2
James Alan Gardner "The Ray Gun: A Love Story" Asimov's, February
Kathleen Ann Goonan "Memory Dog" Asimov's, Apr/May
Kij Johnson "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss"
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My latest Guardian column, "We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage," talks about how the policy debate over "Digital Britain" has ignored the most important aspect of a digital nation: a fair deal on open network access.

But the real problem of per-usage billing is that no one – not even the most experienced internet user – can determine in advance how much bandwidth they're about to consume before they consume it. Before you clicked on this article, you had no w

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Search Engine, the former CBC Radio tech show, has moved to TVOntario, where it's a podcast. Jesse Brown, the host of the show, came by my folks' place last week while I was in Toronto and recorded an interview with me for the premiere.

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The final Hugo Award ballot is finally online (and, presumably, in the post). If you're registered to attend this summer's Worldcon in Montreal, Anticipation, you're eligible to vote in one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the world (and yes indeed, I am a double nominee, thanks for asking!).

Once again, John "Mensch" Scalzi (a triple nominee) has assembled a Hugo Voters' Packet consisting of electronic versions of practically every nominated work. If you're a registered Hugo vo

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I did a live video-chat with some enterprising high-school freshmen at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, CO, a cabal of enterprising kids who are lobbying the school-system to add Little Brother to the statewide curriculum (!). We had a great chat -- they're really bright and lovely kids and clearly passionate and engaged!

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Here's part twenty of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.

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Earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the closing panel at the Convention on Modern Liberty with Billy Bragg, Lisa Appignanesi, Feargal Sharkey, Paul Gilroy and Henry Porter. The Convention was a whole-day event in which activists, scholars, Parliamentarians, regulators, teachers, cryptographers and others. On the closing panel, we were asked to give closing thoughts on the event -- I talked about the fact that British authoritarians have promised us security in exchange f

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Rolling Stone Argentina has a great interview with me about copyright, conducted by Ignacio Román.

Bueno, muchos músicos están despertando. Quizá no les guste lo que está pasando con Internet, porque durante toda su carrera les llenaron la cabeza diciéndoles "no te dejes copiar". Pero de ahí a ir en contra de sus propios fanáticos... En Estados Unidos, miles de personas fueron enjuiciadas, pero esas ganancias no fueron para los creadores. El artista promedio quiere ser recordado como el tipo co

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