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Hey, Little Rock, AR: there’s a special stage performance of Little Brother...
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...
View ArticleA 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...
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Walkaway is a finalist for the Dragon Awards and is #1 on Locus’s hardcover...
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...
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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!
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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...
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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...
View ArticleOur technology is haunted by demons controlled by transhuman life-forms
In my latest Locus column, “Demon-Haunted World,” I propose that the Internet of Cheating Things — gadgets that try to trick us into arranging our affairs to the benefit of corporate shareholders, to...
View ArticleBoring, complex and important: the deadly mix that blew up the open web
On Monday, the World Wide Web Consortium published EME, a standard for locking up video on the web with DRM, allowing large corporate members to proceed without taking any steps to protect...
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My adult novels are being reissued with covers to match Walkaway!
When I first saw Will Stahle‘s cover art for my novel Walkaway, I was pleased beyond all reason (and not least because I am an unabashed Stahle fanboy, as he is behind some of the greatest covers of...
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Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
CNet has started a new book-club podcast, and they honored me by picking my novel Walkaway as their second-ever title. We had a long and far-ranging discussion last week about the book and the themes...
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Londoners! I’ll be speaking at Waterstones Gower Street with Ada Palmer on Nov 8
By a very happy coincidence, Ada Palmer and I are both passing through London on November 8 and we’re doing a joint event at the Waterstones in Gower Street, starting at 6:30! The tickets (which...
View ArticleHow I lifehacked my way into a corner
My latest Locus column is “How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful),” the story of how I was present at the birth of “lifehacking” and how, by diligently applying the precept that I...
View ArticleThe Fight for a Free, Fair and Open Internet | Bioneers 2017
According to journalist, blogger, “creative commons” advocate, Electronic Frontier Foundation Fellow, and award-winning science fiction author Cory Doctorow, the fight for a free, fair and open...
View ArticleHow to get a signed, personalized copy of any of my books, shipped anywhere...
The kind folks at Dark Delicacies, my local specialist horror bookstore here in beautiful Burbank, California have volunteered to fill orders for my novels; since they’re walking distance from my front...
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Hey, Kitchener-Waterloo, I’m headed your way next Monday!
I was honoured to be invited to address the University of Waterloo on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cheriton School of Computer Science; my father is a proud Waterloo grad (and I’m a...
View ArticleNet Neutrality is only complicated because monopolists are paying to...
My op-ed in New Internationalist, ‘Don’t break the 21st century nervous system’, seeks to cut through the needless complexity in the Net Neutrality debate, which is as clear-cut as climate change or...
View ArticleTalking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast
I recorded this interview last summer at San Diego Comic-Con; glad to hear it finally live! Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every book there is…another book, and another. In this...
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Reviving my Christmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy!
For nearly every year since my daughter Poesy was old enough to sing, we’ve recorded a Christmas podcast; but we missed it in 2016, due to the same factors that made the podcast itself dormant for a...
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Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 01
Here’s part one of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn...
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