Cory Doctorow's Blog, page 46
September 5, 2017
Walkaway won the Dragon Award for Best Apocalyptic Novel
Yesterday, I left the Black Rock Desert after Burning Man and my phone came to life and informed me that my novel Walkaway had been awarded DragonCon’s Dragon Award for Best Apocalyptic Novel!
I couldn’t be more pleased. My sincere thanks to all the voters who supported the novel! By the way, Tor.com published Party Discipline — a novella set in the Walkaway world — while I was away in the desert. I think it came out great.
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL:
Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Core...
August 30, 2017
Party Discipline: a novella set in the world of Walkaway
I wrote the novella Party Discipline while I was on my grueling US/Canada/UK tour for my novel Walkaway, last spring. Today, Tor.com publishes the tale, in which two seniors at Burbank High confront their uncertain future by planning a “Communist party” in which they take over a defunct factory and start it up again, a tangible, dangerous, playful reminder that material abundance is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
The piece is accompanied by a gorgeous original illustration by Go...
August 23, 2017
See you at Burning Man!
Tomorrow, I’m turning off my email and hitting the road for Burning Man, where I’ll be giving three talks, and I hope to see you there: at 4PM on Weds, Aug 20, I’m speaking at Palenque Norte at Camp Soft Landing; at noon on Thursday, Aug 31, I’ll be speaking at my home camp, Liminal Labs (6:15 and Rod’s Road); at 4:30PM on Friday, September 1, I’m speaking at the Center Camp Cafe stage. See you there — or back here after Labor Day!
August 10, 2017
Burbank! I’ll see you tonight at 7PM at the Buena Vista library
My Walkaway book-tour is basically over, but I’m taking a little victory lap tonight at my local library, the Buena Vista Branch of the Burbank Public Library. Hope to see you there!
August 5, 2017
Walkaway is a finalist for the Dragon Awards and is #1 on Locus’s hardcover bestseller list
Dragon Con’s Dragon Award ballot was just published and I’m delighted to learn that my novel Walkaway is a finalist in the “Best Apocalyptic Novel” category, along with Daniel Humphreys’ A Place Outside the Wild, Omar El Akkad’s American War, Declan Finn and Allan Yoskowitz’s Codename: Unsub, N.K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate, Rick Heinz’s The Seventh Age: Dawn, and J.F. Holmes’s ZK: Falling.
I’m also delighted to note that Walkaway is currently Locus Magazine’s #1 top-selling hardcover at...
July 29, 2017
A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation Hub
I’m on the latest episode of Innovation Hub (MP3):
Science-fiction is a genre that imagines the future. It doesn’t necessarily predict the future (after all, where are flying cars?), but it grapples with the technological and societal changes happening today to better understand our world and where it’s heading.
So, what does it mean when so much of our most popular science-fiction – The Handmaid’s Tale, The Walking Dead, and The Hunger Games – present bleak, depressing futures? Cory Docto...
July 27, 2017
Hey, Little Rock, AR: there’s a special stage performance of Little Brother coming your way for Banned Books Week!
Adapted by Josh Costello from the novel by Cory Doctorow
September 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 2017
Directed by Ryan Whitfield and Jason Green
SYNOPSIS
While skipping school and playing an alternate reality game, San Francisco teenager Marcus Yallow ends up in the middle of a terrorist attack and on the wrong side of the Department of Homeland Security. This play asks “What is the right thing to do when authorities become oppressors?”
CAST
LITTLE BROTHER CAST LIST
Marcus – Jeffrey Oakle...
July 22, 2017
Come see me at San Diego Comic-Con!
There are three more stops on my tour for Walkaway: tomorrow at San Diego Comic-Con, next weekend at Defcon 25 in Las Vegas, and August 10th at the Burbank Public Library.
My Comic-Con day is tomorrow/Sunday, July 23: first, a 10AM signing at the Tor Books booth (#2701); then a panel, The Future is Bleak, with Annalee Newitz, Scott Westerfeld, Scott Reintgen and Alex R. Kahler; and finally a 1:15PM signing at autographic area AA06.
(Image: Gage Skidmore, CC-BY-SA)
July 19, 2017
Rudy Rucker on Walkaway
Walkaway is my first novel for adults since 2009 and I had extremely high hopes (and not a little anxiety) for it as it entered the world, back in April. Since then, I’ve been gratified by the kind words of many of my literary heroes, from William Gibson to Bruce Sterling to the kind cover quotes from Edward Snowden, Neal Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Today I got a most welcome treat on those lines: a review by Rudy Rucker, lavishly illustrated with some of his excellent photos. R...
July 17, 2017
San Diego! Come hear me read from Walkaway tomorrow night at Comickaze Liberty Station!
I’m teaching the Clarion Science Fiction writing workshop at UCSD in La Jolla this week, and tomorrow night at 7PM, I’ll be reading from my novel Walkaway at Comickaze Liberty Station, 2750 Historic Decatur Rd #101, San Diego, CA 92106. Hope to see you!
