Cory Doctorow's Blog, page 21

John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox

I am about to start a serialized podcast reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, whose first hour Ive already got in the can. It debuts later this week on the Podapalooza festival, a pay-what-you-like, virtual podcasting festival that benefits Givedirectly, which makes direct cash grants to families affected by coronavirus and Ill be putting it in my feed next Monday.

In the meantime, I have been casting about for something to read into this weeks podcast; this...

Radio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow (fixed)

Wil Wheaton and I swapped podcasts! I read his 2008 journal entries about Little Brother and parenting, and he released a fantastic audiobook (MP3) of my story Return to Pleasure Island from my first short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

Radio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow

Wil Wheaton and I swapped podcasts! I read his 2008 journal entries about Little Brother and parenting, and he released a fantastic audiobook (MP3) of my story Return to Pleasure Island from my first short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

Podcast swap: Wil Wheaton on Little Brother

This week for my podcast, Im doing a swap with Wil Wheaton and his podcast! hes gonna read one of my short stories, and Im reading a couple of his public journal entries about the role my novel Little Brother played in helping him parent his son Nolan (MP3). Its a lovely memory and a beautiful example of the joys and pitfalls of parenting, and Im so honored to be reminded of the role that I played in Wil and Nolans relationship.

Thanks to Wil for suggesting this piece its a bit of turnabout...

The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots

My latest podcast (MP3) is a reading of my 2017 Locus column The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots , about the nature of material scarcity, which is a subject of enormous significance at this moment as production has ground to a halt, and in which the use of the internet to coordinate our activity is at an all-time high. The essays thesis is that the answer to the climate change crisis might coordination, not privation holidays when our renewable energy sources werent producing, work when they were....

Ive got a old-fashioned link-blog, Pluralistic, where I p...

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Author’s Note from Attack Surface

My latest podcast (MP3) is a reading of the authors note from Attack Surface the third Little Brother book, which comes out on Oct 12. I recorded this for the audiobook edition of Attack Suface, which Ive been recording all last week with Amber Benson and the Cassandra de Cuir from Skyboat Media. If you like what you hear, please consider pre-ordering the book its a scary time to have a book in the production pipeline!

88 Names podcast (fixed) (for real)

The brilliant writer Matt Ruff just published a new heist novel about gold-farming and MMORPGs called 88 NAMES thats like Snow Crash meets The King and I:

https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/3d-gen-gold-farmers.html

Matts doing a podcast about the book with Blake Collier, and I appeared in the latest episode:

We cover a lot of ground: the state of tech and how it influences everything from economics to the environment, how fiction...

88 Names podcast

The brilliant writer Matt Ruff just published a new heist novel about gold-farming and MMORPGs called 88 NAMES thats like Snow Crash meets The King and I:

https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/3d-gen-gold-farmers.html

Matts doing a podcast about the book with Blake Collier, and I appeared in the latest episode:

We cover a lot of ground: the state of tech and how it influences everything from economics to the environment, how fiction...

Data – the new oil, or potential for a toxic oil spill?

My latest podcast is a reading (MP3) of Data the new oil, or potential for a toxic oil spill? a column I wrote for Kaspersky in which I argue that data was never the new oil instead, it was always the new toxic waste: pluripotent, immortal and impossible to contain.

Data breaches are inevitable (any data you collect will probably leak; any data you retain will definitely leak) and cumulative (your companys data breach can be combined with each subsequent attack to revictimize your...