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Halifax! I’m speaking at Atlseccon on April 24 (then Toronto, Ottawa, Berlin and Houston!)

I’m coming to Halifax to give the closing keynote on day one of Atlseccon on April 24th: it’s only my second-ever visit to the city and the first time I’ve given a talk there, so I really hope you can make it!

From there, I’m headed to Toronto, where I’m giving a keynote called The Internet Isn’t What We Fight FOR, It’s What We Fight WITH on April 29th at the FITC Technology and Creativity Conference.

Then I’m appearing at the Ottawa Writers Festival on May 4, presenting my newest book, Ra...

Tor’s Ebook Club is giving away copies of my novel WALKAWAY!

Every month, Tor Books’ free Ebook Club gives away a different novel to people who have signed up; this month, the selection is my most recent novel, Walkaway! Sign up between now and the 20th to get your free copy (this only works in Canada and the US; different publishers have the rights in other countries and I’ll be sure to let you know when/if they do their own giveaways).

Talking Radicalized with John Scalzi in the LA Times

Ahead of our panel at the LA Times Festival of Books on Sunday, John Scalzi interviewed me about my new book Radicalized for his column in the Times.

John tells the story of how I was the first writer he met after he embarked on his career — it was at the Toronto Worldcon — and then we delve into the nature of dystopia, hope, and the role of science fiction in informing our policy debates:

Q. You write fiction and you’re also a public advocate for tech, privacy and current cultural issues,...

San Diego! I’m keynoting the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Public Library tomorrow (then: UCLA and LA Times Festival of Books)

Tomorrow night (Thursday, April 11), I’m headlining a free event celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Friends of the San Diego Public Library from 7-9PM: it’s at the Central Library’s Neil Morgan Auditorium (330 Park Blvd., San Diego 92101). The tl;dr of my speech: “libraries as one of the few remnants of a world where people were valued because of their humanity, not their money, and how that works in the current moment of extreme inequality, epistemological incoherence, and fear of immi...

Interview with the Left Field podcast about Radicalized and the EU Copyright Directive

While I was out on tour with Radicalized, I recorded an interview (MP3) with the Left Field podcast (“A couple of socialists with a couple of beers. We talk about Canadian politics and current events around the world”). We covered a lot of ground, particularly around the catastrophic EU Copyright Directive and, of course, the new book.

Occupy Gotham: my essay about the class war at the heart of Batman

The book Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman commemorates the 1000th issue of Batman comics; my contribution is an essay called Occupy Gotham, about the terror of letting a billionaire vigilante decide who is and isn’t a criminal (featuring Lessig and Piketty jokes!).

Burbank! I’ll be at Dark Delicacies this weekend (then San Diego, UCLA, LA Times Festival of Books)

Next week is my Southern California nonstop Radicalized and advocacy week: I’m starting with a signing at Burbank’s Dark Delicacies on Sunday at 4PM, alongside Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton, who are signing their new anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror & Suspense.

Next, I’m keynoting the San Diego Public Library’s 40th anniversary celebration with a talk on Thursday from 7-9PM at the Central Library’s Neil Morgan Auditorium (330 Park Blvd., San Diego 92101), talking about how...

Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information

The CBC’s Ryan B Patrick interviewed me about my latest sf book, Radicalized and how the four novellas in it relate to struggles for liberation, racial justice, technological self-determination, inequality and a sustainable climate plan.

Some of the stories in Radicalized are darker than the ones I’ve written in the past decade, reflecting my own anxiety (I call this my “Trump derangement syndrome book,” and the stories were written to master my own concerns as the darkest timeline has only...

Video from my Radicalized tour appearance at Toronto Public Library’s Metro Reference Library

As part of our spring 2019 lineup for the eh List series, Cory Doctorow discussed Radicalized, his timely novel on the social, technological, and economic visions of today and what society could be in the near, near future.

Watch Cory Doctorow in conversation with Barry Hertz.

This event was held in the Atrium of Toronto Reference Library.

Interview with My Summer Lair

Another great podcast interview from my Radicalized book tour: this one with My Summer Lair (MP3) where host Sammy Younan and I discussed the book from a Canadian perspective (we recorded in Toronto) and really dug into some of the book’s themes.