Cory Doctorow's Blog, page 35
March 21, 2019
Toronto! I’m at the Metro Reference Library tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Chicago, San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver…
We had a hell of an event last night at The Strand in NYC, and I’m about to head to the airport for my flight to Toronto for tonight’s event at the Metro Reference Library, hosted by the Globe & Mail’s Barry Hertz.
Tomorrow it’s Chicago’s and then to Berkeley for an event with the writer and photographer Richard Kadrey, and then the Revolutionary Reads program at Fort Vancouver’s Clark College (just outside of Portland, OR); and then the tour takes me to Seattle and Anaheim! I...
March 20, 2019
NYC! I’m coming to The Strand tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco…
Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s launch event at San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy! The next stop on my tour is an event at 7PM at The Strand in NYC where I’ll be appearing with the award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin, who is pinch-hitting for Anand Giridharadas, who has had a family emergency.
Tomorrow night, I’ll be appearing at the Toronto Metro Reference Library at 7PM, with the Globe & Mail’s Barry Hertz; from there, I go to Chicago’s and then to Be...
March 19, 2019
San Diego! I’m coming to town tonight with my new book Radicalized! (next: NYC, Toronto, Chicago…)
Thanks to the folks who came to last night’s LA launch for Radicalized, my latest book of science fiction for adults; I’m about to hop a train to San Diego for an event tonight at Mysterious Galaxy at 7:30 PM. From there, the tour takes me to NYC on Wednesday (The Strand, 7PM); then Toronto on Thursday (Metro Reference Library, 7PM, with Barry Hertz), and then to Chicago for . From there, I head to San Francisco, Fort Vancouver, WA (Portland, essentially!), Seattle and Anaheim....
March 18, 2019
Los Angeles! I’m launching my new book Radicalized with Lexi Alexander tonight (next: San Diego, NYC, Toronto…)
Tonight is the launch for my latest book of science fiction for adults, Radicalized: I’ll be at the Barnes and Novel at The Grove in Los Angeles, in conversation with director/activist/stuntwoman/champion kickboxer Lexi Alexander, starting at 7PM.
From there, the tour takes me to San Diego tomorrow (Mysterious Galaxy, 7:30 PM; then NYC on Wednesday (The Strand, 7PM, with Anand Giridharadas); then Toronto on Thursday (Metro Reference Library, 7PM, with Barry Hertz), and then I’m in Chicago, S...
March 15, 2019
Radicalized is one of The Verge’s picks for March!
Well, this is awesome: Andrew Liptak picked my next book, Radicalized as one of The Verge’s picks for March! The tour starts Monday!
Cory Doctorow is best known for novels, but his new book is a little different: it’s made up of four novellas set in the near future — “Unauthorized Bread,” about a woman who goes to great lengths to jailbreak the appliances in her subsidized housing; “Model Minority,” in which a superhero tries to tackle police corruption; “Radicalized,” about a man who spark...
March 12, 2019
I’m going out on tour with my new science fiction book RADICALIZED and I hope to see you!
Radicalized is my next science fiction book, out on March 18 from Tor Books: it contains four novellas about the hope and misery of our moment, from refugees resisting life in an automated IoT hell to health care executives being targeted by suicide bombers who have been traumatized by watching their loved ones die after being denied care. Tor Books is sending me on tour with the book in the US and Canada and I hope you can make it to one of my stops!
I’ll be doing more travel with the book...
March 6, 2019
Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW
I’m heading back to Austin for the SXSW Interactive festival and you can catch me three times this weekend: first on the Untold AI panel with Malka Older, Rashida Richardson and Christopher Noessel (5-6PM, Fairmont Manchester AB); then at the EFF Austin Party with Cindy Cohn and Bruce Sterling (7PM, 1309 Bonham Terrace); and on Sunday, I’m giving a keynote for Berlin’s Re:Publica conference, which has its own track at SXSW; I’m speaking about Europe’s new Copyright Directive and its dread Ar...
March 5, 2019
Critical praise for RADICALIZED, my next book, from Booklist and Publishers Weekly
My next book of science fiction for adults is Radicalized, which will be published on March 19 (I’ll be making tour appearances across the US, Canada and Germany starting on March 18); the early critical notices have started to come in and gosh, they are embarrassingly effusive!
From Publishers Weekly: “Doctorow (Walkaway) captures the mix of hope, fear, and uncertainty felt by those in precarious situations, set against the backdrop of intriguing futuristic landscapes. The characters are we...
March 4, 2019
Terra Nullius: Grifters, settler colonialism and “intellectual property”
Terra Nullius is my latest column in Locus magazine; it explores the commonalities between the people who claim ownership over the things they use to make new creative works and the settler colonialists who arrived in various “new worlds” and declared them to be empty, erasing the people who were already there as a prelude to genocide.
I was inspired by the story of Aloha Poke, in which a white dude from Chicago secured a trademark for his “Aloha Poke” midwestern restaurants, then threatened...
February 21, 2019
Beyond “more copyright”: how do we improve artists’ lives and livelihoods through policy?
Last year while I was on tour in Australia with my novel Walkaway, I sat down for an interview with legal scholar Rebecca Giblin (previously), whose Authors’ Interest project studies how we would craft copyright (and other policies) if we wanted to benefit creators, rather than enriching corporations; we talked about the power and limits of copyright to benefit authors, and how other policies, like antitrust, are crucial to getting authors their fair share.
