Cory Doctorow is co-editor of BoingBoing.net and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award and was named one of the internet’s top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you’ll use technology to change the world.
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Now out from Cory Doctorow:
Makers (Paperback – July 2010)
Read an extract from Makers
Perry and Lester invent things. All sorts of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent an entirely new economic system for the technological era, dubbed ‘New Work’, which leads barefoot bankers to microinvest in high-tech communal start-ups all over the country, just like Perry and Lester’s. They are transforming a country, and journalist Suzanne Church is there to document every moment.
But when the ‘New Work’ bubble finally bursts, it puts the dot.com-bomb to shame. Down but not out, Perry and Lester go back to what they do best – making stuff. Jealous of their new-found success, a rogue Disney executive convinces the police that their amazing 3-D printers are being used to run off AK-47s, and things get very dark very quickly…
List of Cory’s books
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From the New York Time bestselling author, Cory Doctorow, comes For The Win, a provocative and exhilarating tale of teen rebellion against global corporations and a call to arms for a new generation.
Set in the not too distant future, Doctorow’s novel tells of a world in which workers in special economic zones are trapped in lives of poverty with no trade unions to represent their rights. Matthew and his friends labour day and night as gold-farmers, amassing virtual wealth that’s sold on to rich Western players, while in the slums of Mumbai ‘General Robotwallah’ Mala marshals her team of online thugs on behalf of the local gang-boss, who in turn works for the game-owners. They’re all being exploited, as their friend Wei-Dong, all the way over in LA, knows, but can do little about.
Until they begin to realize that their similarities outweigh their differences, and agree to work together to claim their rights to fair working conditions. Under the noses of the ruling elites in China and the rest of Asia, they fight their bosses, the owners of the games and rich speculators, outsmarting them all with their unbeatable gaming skills. But soon the battle will spill over from the virtual world to the real one, leaving Mala, Matthew and even Wei-Dong fighting not just for their rights, but for their lives…
If you haven’t read a Doctorow, now is the time to start. Just be warned that once you have, you’ll find it near-impossible to stop.
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