Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the coeditor of the popular blog Boing Boing, and a contributor to the Guardian, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK) and Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo (Canada); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and British Science Fiction Awards. His New York Times Bestseller Little Brother was published in May 2008, a followup young adult novel titled FOR THE WIN was published in 2010. His latest short story collection is With A Little Help, available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and limited edition hardcover. In 2011, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century (with an introduction by Tim O’Reilly) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now. His latest adult novel is Makers, published by Tor Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, a PM Press Outspoken Authors chapbook, was also published in 2011.

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Praise

“Doctorow uses science fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into some of society’s unlighted corners.”  —New York Times

“Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar—a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find).”  —William Gibson, author of Neuromancer

“Everything comes under Doctorow’s microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way.”  —Locus

“One of the genre’s fresh new talents, one of the few who seamlessly mixes the future with the bizarre.”  —Rocky Mountain News

“Doctorow shows us life from the point-of-view of the plugged-in generation and makes it feel like a totally alien world.”  —Montreal Gazette

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Description

Burn, Baby, Burn.

An incendiary mixture of genres and voices, this collection of short stories compiles a unique set of work that revolves around riots, revolts, and revolution. From the turbulent days of unionism in the streets of New York City during the Great Depression to a group of old women who meet at their local café to plan a radical act that will change the world forever, these original and once out-of-print stories capture the various ways people rise up to challenge the status quo and change up the relationships of power. Ideal for any fan of noir, science fiction, and revolution and mayhem, this collection includes works from Sara Paretsky, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Cory Doctorow, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Summer Brenner.

Click here for a free download of Andrea Gibbons’s story “The El Rey Bar”

Full list of contributors:

Summer Brenner
Cory Doctorow, Rick Dakan, Andrea Gibbons, Barry Graham, John A Imani, Penny Mickelbury, Sara Paretsky, Gary Phillips, Kim Stanley Robinson, Luis Rodriguez, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Benjamin Whitmer, Ken Wishnia, Michael Moorcock, Michael Skeet, Larry Fondation, Tim Wohlforth

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Praise

“Rad Dad gives voice to egalitarian parenting and caregiving by men in a truly radical fashion, with its contributors challenging traditional norms of what it means to be a father and subverting paradigms, while making you laugh in the process. With its thoughtful and engaging stories on topics like birth, stepfathering, gender, politics, pop culture, and the challenges of kids growing older, this collection of essays and interviews is a compelling addition to books on fatherhood.”  —Jennifer Silverman, co-editor, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

“With a diverse, smart, and political collection of contributors, Rad Dad will be an instant classic among the new generation of parents whose parenting intersects with their politics. There’s no way you can put this book down without feeling both inspired and entertained by the bold honesty and fierce love heard in these voices.”  —Jessica Mills, author of My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

“Rad Dad is one of the most important voices on the planet—at once parental, political, feminist, humble, and full of heart. In Rad Dad, none of our assumptions about parenting, gender, or the way things ‘have to be’ in the world go unexplored.”  —Ariel Gore, author of Bluebird: On Women and Happiness and The Hip Mama Survival Guide

“Rad Dad is a rattlebag of the rough-hewn and the polished, the insightful and the infuriating, the comic and the sublime. But it’s always passionate, critical and, in moments, heart-stopping. In short: Rad Dad is fab.” —Raj Patel, author ofThe Value of Nothing

“Rad Dad is a book about all the shapes and sizes that dads come in, united by the simple narrative thread of man and his children. Read the book and love your kids.  It’s that simple.”  —Tom Matlack, co-founder of The Good Men Project

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Book Events

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Reviews

• Adventure Capitalism: A Review by Cory Doctorow
• The Primal Screamer: A Pensive Quill Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow in True Review
• Rudy Rucker’s Surfing the Gnarl on BoingBoing
• Geek Mafia: Awesome Nerdy Caper Novel
• Geek Mafia: Mile Zero: Nerdy Caper Novel, the Sequel
• Geek Mafia 3: Black Hat—A Heist Novel for Hackers
• Rad Dad in Razorcake #2
• Rad Dad in Bitch Magazine
• Rad Dad: A Review
• Rad Dad in Left Turn Magazine
• Rad Dad in Razorcake
• Rad Dad on Red Dirt Report
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! A SF Revu Review
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! in Briarpatch Magazine
• The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized: Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! in Tor
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! on City Book Review
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: A Mystery Gazette Review
• Kim Stanley Robinson Chapbook
• World War 3 Illustrated: prescient outrage from the dawn of the Piketty apocalypse
• Radical Noir: 26 Activist Crime Novels: Revolutionaries, Agitators, and Organizers in Crime Fiction
• Progress or Change? Cory Doctorow’s The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: A VanderMeer Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: A Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow in Publishers Weekly
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow in the San Francisco Book Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow on Midwest Book Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: A Review
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow on SFRevu
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow on Wired.com
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow in Electric Review
• BoingBoing sees a ‘Fire on the Mountain’
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: A Review
• Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! in Publishers Weekly
• It’s Your Heart, Don’t Let It Die

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Interviews

• Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future

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Mentions

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Blog

• Adventure Capitalism: A Review by Cory Doctorow
• Don’t Look for the Helpers— By Cory Doctorow
• Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels