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How to get a signed, personalized copy of Walkaway sent to your door!

The main body of the tour for my novel Walkaway is done (though there are still upcoming stops at Denver Comic-Con, San Diego Comic-Con, the Burbank Public Library and Defcon in Las Vegas), but you can still get signed, personalized copies of Walkaway!

My local, fantastic indie bookstore, Dark Delicacies, has a good supply of Walkaways, and since I pass by it most days, they’ve generously offered to take special orders for me to stop in and personalize so they can ship them anywhere in the...

New Yorkers! I’ll see you tomorrow at Bookcon on the Walkaway tour (then SF, Chicago, Denver…) (!)

I just got to NYC for Bookcon, where I’m Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, where I’m o...

Bad news: tech is making us more unequal. Good news: tech can make us more equal.

My latest Guardian column is Technology is making the world more unequal. Only technology can fix this; in it, I argue that surveillance and control technology allow ruling elites to hold onto power despite the destabilizing effects of their bad decisions — but that technology also allows people to form dissident groups and protect them from intrusive states.

The question, then, isn’t whether technology makes the world more equal and prosperous, but how to use technology to attain those...

My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern

I’m a huge fan of the fantastically rude improv/current affairs/high fantasy podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern, I’ve enjoyed it ever since I binge-listened to the first season halfway through.

Last month, I dropped into the Cards Against Humanity studios where the podcast is recorded while in Chicago on my book tour, where I sat in on a session (MP3) where I played Sigint, the Five-Eyed Spider, a whistleblowing ex-spy for the Dark Lord.

I had an amazing time: I’m no improver, but the...

Talking WALKAWAY with Reason

My novel WALKAWAY is something of a fusion of the best elements of the anti-authoritarian left and the anti-authoritarian right. In a meaty interview with Reason Magazine, I discuss the politics and economics, and theories of human action with Reason magazine Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Liverpool, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Birmingham, Hay-on-Wye, San Francisco…) (!)

Thanks to everyone who came out for last night’s final London event on the UK Walkaway tour, at Pages of Hackney with Olivia Sudjic; today I’m heading to Waterstones Liverpool One for an event with Dr Chris Pak, followed by a stop tomorrow at Waterstones in Birmingham and then wrapping up in the UK with an event with Adam Rutherford at the Hay Festival.

Then I hit the road again in the USA, with stops at the Bay Area Book Festival, BookCon NYC, ALA Chicago, Printers Row Chicago, Denver C...

London! I’ll be at Pages of Hackney tonight with Olivia Sudjic! (then Liverpool, Birmingham, Hay…) (!)

Last night’s sold-out Walkaway tour event with Laurie Penny at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road was spectacular (and not just because they had some really good whisky behind the bar), and the action continues today with a conversation with Olivia Sudjic tonight at Pages of Hackney, where we’ll be discussing her novel Sympathy as well as Walkaway.

Tomorrow, I’ll be at Waterstones Liverpool One with Dr Chris Pak, and on Friday I’ll signing at Waterstones Birmingham before heading to Hay-on...

London! I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Liverpool, Birmingham, and Hay…) (!)

Last night’s kick-off event for the UK Walkaway tour was brilliant, thanks to the magic combination of the excellent Tim Harford, the excellent people of Oxford, and the excellent booksellers at Blackwells!

Tonight I’ll be at Forbidden Planet at 6PM to sign books, then we’re walking over to Waterstone’s Tottenham Court Road for with Olivia Sudjic (author of Sympathy) at Pages of Hackney at 7PM.

After that...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future

Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds is a new MIT Press book commemorating the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

I was honored to be asked to contribute an essay to the edition, which they titled I’ve Created a Monster! And so can you. It’s a look at how Shelley’s book illustrates the relationship of science fiction to the present (it reflects back our hopes and fears) and the...

Oxford, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour (then London, Liverpool, Birmingham…) (!)

I’m in the UK for the British Walkaway tour, which kicks off tonight at 7PM in Oxford where I’ll be in conversation with Tim Harford at Blackwells.

Then I’m doing three events in London: a signing at Forbidden Planet at 6PM on Tuesday, then a conversation with Laurie Penny at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road at 7:45 on Tuesday; and on Wednesday, it’s a conversation with Olivia Sudjic (author of Sympathy) at Pages of Hackney at 7PM.

From there, I’m heading back to the USA for appearances...