Here’s part six of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
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My Podcast is a regular feed in which I read from one of my stories for a few minutes at least once a week, from whatever friend’s house, airport, hotel, conference, treaty negotiation or what-have-you that I’m currently at. Here’s the podcast feed.
Here’s part five of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Here’s part four of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Here’s part three of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Jan Rubak, a Canadian mathematician/physicist, has been reading aloud all the essays from my collection Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future and uploading them to the Internet Archive, and this week, he finished! He’s even included some bonus material from John Perry Barlow. These are great readings and this was a gigantic undertaking — thanks, Jan!
I’ve included a bonus chapter at the end with Barlow’s “Economy of Ideas” plus a somewhat impassioned reading of “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” to round out the whole experience.Sometime in the next month or two, I’ll also upload some afterthoughts of my own as a final entry (but first I’m going to listen to the whole thing through from start to finish).
Here’s part two of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
After a long hiatus, I’m back at my podcast, and to kick it off, I’m reading my 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, “A miraculous story of secrets, lies, magic and Internet connectivity.” It’s going to take a while — this is a looong book — and I’m really looking forward to it. I haven’t re-read this book since it was published, and it’s been enough time that it’s like reading something someone else wrote, which is really cool and fun.
Here’s the Publishers’ Weekly summary:
“It’s only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow’s fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he’s the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human being’or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist’s plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who’s now resurrected and bent on revenge.”
This week, The Command Line podcast favored me with a stellar review from my new essay collection Content, along with readings of two of the essays: Amish for QWERTY and Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s venerable Ideas programme just aired a fantastic one-hour segment on copyright called “Who Owns Ideas?” with a wide range of interviews with me, James Boyle, Steve Page from BNL, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Eric Flint, Michael Geist and many others.
I did a fun interview about Little Brother with the Podcrash podcast from the Bureaucrash folks:
