Here’s part twenty-seven of my reading of Bruce Sterling’s brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
The Hodgepodge blog has created a widget to track the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds until the launch of Little Brother — color me flattered!
Luke Kowalski’s just published a Polish translation of my story Printcrime — what a great way to start the new year!
Here’s part twenty-six of my reading of Bruce Sterling’s brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
Neil Gaiman gave me an unexpected Christmas present this year — a stellar review of my forthcoming novel Little Brother (a YA novel that pits hacker kids in San Francisco against the DHS in a bid to restore the Bill of Rights to America) on his blog. He has a few quibbles with some of the plot elements, but closes with this:
I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I’ve read this year, and I’d want to get it into the hands of as many smart 13 year olds, male and female, as I can.Because I think it’ll change lives. Because some kids, maybe just a few, won’t be the same after they’ve read it. Maybe they’ll change politically, maybe technologically. Maybe it’ll just be the first book they loved or that spoke to their inner geek. Maybe they’ll want to argue about it and disagree with it. Maybe they’ll want to open their computer and see what’s in there. I don’t know. It made me want to be 13 again right now and reading it for the first time, and then go out and make the world better or stranger or odder. It’s a wonderful, important book, in a way that renders its flaws pretty much meaningless.
See also:
Cory’s Little Brother reading
Holy crap, I love the cover of my next book!
Happy xmas! I’ve just posted a 2:23 reading I did of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland — the first book I ever read to myself, and one of my all time favorites. The reading’s under a Creative Commons Attribution-only license, so do anything you’d like with it!
Last month, I popped in on Taugshow, the madcap “talkshow” put on by the Monochrom net-arts collective in Vienna. I was interviewed along with Sean Bonner, Evelyn Fuerlinger, GameJew, Tim Pritlove and Jeff Moss. Monochrom just posted the video — there’s some damned funny stuff here and lots of good stuff to think about.
Here’s part twenty-five of my reading of Bruce Sterling’s brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
Hey, this is keen! I just made the Forbes Web Celebs 25 for the second year in a row! I’m in great company — two of my Boing Boing co-editors, Mark Frauenfelder and Xeni Jardin, are also on the list!
Cory Doctorow is a prominent activist for digital rights, and serves as a fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He’s one of the editors of Boing Boing, a hugely influential and popular blog about technology, culture and politics. And he’s also a science fiction novelist, particularly famous on the Web, where he gives his novels away for free (For more, see his essay, ” Giving It Away.”) In 2007, Doctorow raised his profile with a new short story collection, Overclocked, numerous columns and articles around the Web (including on Forbes.com) and participation in Boing Boing’s new podcasts and videocasts.
Here’s part twenty-four of my reading of Bruce Sterling’s brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
