Here’s part four of the podcast reading of “True Names,” the novella I co-wrote with Ben Rosenbaum. This week, it’s me reading!
The finalists for Canada’s Aurora Awards for the best science fiction of the year have been announced, and I’m delighted to note that Tesseracts Eleven, the anthology I co-edited with Holly Phillips, is a finalist for Best Work in English (Other)!
Best Long-Form Work in English:
As Fate Decrees by Denysé Bridger (published by EDGE Publishing)
New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central Publishing)
The Moon Under Her Feet by Derwin Mak (Windstorm Creative)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor/Analog)
Cry Wolf by Edo van Belkom (McClelland & Stewart)
See also: Tesseracts 11 Canadian sf anthology launch in Toronto this Sat
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Review:
Some Review
Doctorow excels in writing short forms, the essay no less than the short story, making this
collection a pleasure to read, not to mention thought-provoking.
Regina Schroeder, Booklist
I’m featured in the April 1 ish of Locus Magazine:
In a widely anticipated move, blogger and sf writer Cory Doctorow today announced that he is making himself available for download under a Creative Commons license. The download, which will be available from midnight on Tuesday, will be for a wide range of non-DRM platforms.
In a webchat announcing the plans, Doctorow downplayed suggestions that the download would reduce demand for people wanting to meet him in person: “My bet is that the Ubiquitous Cory will be the best promotional tool I’ve ever had.”
The downloaded Doctorow also includes a laptop, MP3 player, and a range of eight Copyfight/EFF T-shirts.
My latest Thinkernet column is live: “The Pleasures of Uninterrupted Communication,” about the difference between technologies that let us do a lot of things at once and those that interrupt us over and over again:
The mature information worker is someone who can manage his queues effectively, prioritizing and re-prioritizing as new items crop up, doing the fast-context-switching necessary to respond to an email while waiting for a file to download or a backup to complete. It’s a little like spinning plates, and when you get the rhythm of it, it can be glorious. There’s a zone you slip into, a zone where everything gets done, one thing after another clicking into place.
But once you add an interruptive medium like IM, unscheduled calls, or pop-up notifiers of mail, flow turns into chop. The buzz, blip, and snap of a thousand alerts turn plate-spinning into hell, as random firecrackers detonate over and over again, on every side of you, always there in your peripheral vision, blowing your capacity to manage your own queue as they rudely insert themselves into your attention.
Here’s part three of the podcast reading of “True Names,” the novella I co-wrote with Ben Rosenbaum. This week, it’s me reading!
I’m one of the guests of honor at this summer’s Pi Con, the annual science fiction convention held Aug 22-24 in West Springfield, MA, appearing alongside of Randall Munroe, the creator of the brilliant geek webcomic XKCD. I’m really looking forward to this — I’ve never met Randall and I’m an ardent admirer of his work. Discount registration is open until May 31.
This year Pi-Con, the convention located in the belly button of the universe (or more specifically, The Pioneer Valley) is lucky enough to have both Cory Doctorow and Randall Munroe as guests of honor.Pi-Con has a lot to offer. We have a gaming (both table top and electronic), panels of all types (including virtual and pool panels) and flavors (from hard science to gaming, web comics to polyamory, and quite possibly everything in between), and vendors to fit all your geeky needs.
Here’s part two of the podcast reading of “True Names,” the novella I co-wrote with Ben Rosenbaum. This week, it’s Ben reading!
