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Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find

Cory Doctorow — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:05:27 +0000

The Seattle Public Library system's annual Summer Reading Program is called Century 22: Read the Future, and is tied in with the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair. Young people are encouraged to scour the city's landmarks for 1,000 books hidden throughout town, and then to re-hide them for other kids to find. Among the books in this summer's program is my own YA novel Little Brother, which is a source of utter delight for me.

Big in Japan!

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:00:44 +0000

I'm incredibly chuffed to learn that the Japanese edition of Little Brother is up for this year's Seiun award, along with Bacigalupi's Windup Girl, Mieville's The City & the City, Wilson's Chronoliths, Delany's Dhalgren and Ballad's Millennium People.

Little Brother play, extended

Cory Doctorow — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:50:57 +0000

The San Francisco Chronicle loves the stage adaptation of my novel Little Brother, and brings the welcome news that its run has been extended by two weeks!

Little Brother stage-play in San Francisco

Cory Doctorow — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:54:02 +0000

There's a new stage adaptation of my novel Little Brother opening in San Francisco. Charlie Jane Anders from IO9 got to go to the preview and loved it, which is incredibly heartening, since I won't get to see it!

So I'll just say that the version I saw was powerful and brilliant, and the cast was note-perfect, especially Daniel Petzold as Marcus Yallow. (The other two castmembers, Marissa Keltie and Cory Censoprano, have a harder task in some ways, since they play a variety of roles throughout the show. And they're both great as well.) The stage play uses a lot of pre-recorded video and some very clever sets to create a lot of different settings, as well as giving a primer in topics like the futility of using data-mining to catch terrorists.

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother becomes a must-see stage play

Coming to Zurich next week

Cory Doctorow — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:02:31 +0000

I'm coming to Zurich next week to do a series of high-school lectures in connection with the German edition of Little Brother, and while I'm in town, I've scheduled a free lecture, organised by local free culture and Creative Commons activists. It's at 8PM on December 6, at the Kunstraum Walcheturm. Hope to see you there!

Little Brother II naming rights up for bid

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:13:15 +0000

Fantasy literature doyenne Terri Windling is in the midst of a serious financial and health crisis and her friends are pitching in to run a fundraising auction for her benefit. My contribution: naming rights for a character in the sequel to Little Brother, to be published by Tor Teen in late 2012/early 2013.

IndieGoGo campaign for Custom Made Theatre Company’s sweet, low-budg stage adaptation of LITTLE BROTHER

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:04:12 +0000

Little Brother Live, coming to Custom Made Theatre from Pauline Luppert on Vimeo.

San Francisco's Custom Made Theatre Company is mounting a sweet, low-budget production of Little Brother, and they're looking to raise the funds for a high-quality video projector, which the playwright, Josh Costello, says "would make a huge difference."

Nicely formatted ePub of Little Brother German fan-trans

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:57:35 +0000

Clemens Schaber, a reader in Austria, converted Christian Wöhrl's German fan-translation of Little Brother to a nicely formatted ePub. Thanks, Clemens!

Book news: “Rapture of the Nerds” and Little Brother II

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:42:40 +0000

Two bits of glad tidings: first, Charlie Stross announces that we've turned in the manuscript for our collaborative, post-Singularity comic novel Rapture of the Nerds; second, my agent Russ Galen has sold Homeland, the sequel to my 2008 novel Little Brother, to Tor, in "a significant deal."

Little Brother stage adaptation in San Francisco, Jan 2012

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:22:19 +0000

Josh Costello has adapted my novel Little Brother for stage in San Francisco (this is new adaptation, unrelated to the production that ran in Chicago a few years back). The show opens in January, 2012, and he's just gone into production; he's keeping running notes of his progress at a blog called LITTLE BROTHER LIVE.