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London! I’ll be at Pages of Hackney tonight with Olivia Sudjic! (then...
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...
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Liverpool, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Birmingham,...
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...
View ArticleTalking 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...
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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...
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Bad news: tech is making us more unequal. Good news: tech can make us more...
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...
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New Yorkers! I’ll see you tomorrow at Bookcon on the Walkaway tour (then SF,...
I just got to NYC for Bookcon, where I’m appearing tomorrow, at a “guest bookseller” event with John Scalzi at 11 at the Tor Booth (3008) (we’ll be talking up books we love!); then a panel with...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTalking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcast
I’m in the latest episode of Imaginary Worlds, “Imagining the Internet” (MP3), talking about the future as a contestable place that we can’t predict, but that we can influence. We were promised flying...
View ArticleCanada: Trump shows us what happens when “good” politicians demand...
The CBC asked me to write an editorial for their package about Canadian identity and politics, timed with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the settler state on indigenous lands. They’ve...
View ArticleBruce Sterling reviews WALKAWAY
Bruce Sterling, Locus Magazine: Walkaway is a real-deal, generically traditional science-fiction novel; it’s set in an undated future and it features weird set design, odd costumes, fights, romances,...
View ArticleAudio from my NYPL appearance with Edward Snowden
Last month, I appeared onstage with Edward Snowden at the NYPL, hosted by Paul Holdengraber, discussing my novel Walkaway. The library has just posted the audio! It was quite an evening
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I’ll see you this weekend at Denver Comic-Con!
I just checked in for my o-dark-hundred flight to Denver tomorrow morning for this weekend’s Denver Comic-Con, where I’m appearing for several hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, including panels...
View ArticleInterview with Wired UK’s Upvote podcast
Back in May, I stopped by Wired UK while on my British tour for my novel Walkaway to talk about the novel, surveillance, elections, and, of course, DRM. (MP3)
View ArticleMy presentation from ConveyUX
Last March, I traveled to Seattle to present at the ConveyUX conference, with a keynote called “Dark Patterns and Bad Business Models”, the video for which has now been posted: “The Internet’s broken...
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How to write pulp fiction that celebrates humanity’s essential goodness
My latest Locus column is “Be the First One to Not Do Something that No One Else Has Ever Not Thought of Doing Before,” and it’s about science fiction’s addiction to certain harmful fallacies, like...
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Talking Walkaway with Reason Magazine
Of all the press-stops I did on my tour for my novel Walkaway, I was most excited about my discussion with Katherine Mangu-Ward, editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine, where I knew I would have a...
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I’m profiled in the new issue of Locus Magazine
Cory Doctorow: Bugging In: ‘‘Walkaway is an ‘optimistic disaster novel.’ It’s about people who, in a crisis, come together, rather than turning on each other. Its villains aren’t the people next door,...
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San Diego! Come hear me read from Walkaway tomorrow night at Comickaze...
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...
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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...
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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...
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