On May 30, the Ottawa Citizen ran a great profile on me and my books, with a sidebar on other authors who ppost their work online. The Citizen has a weird policy where they only let subscribers see their online archives, but Brent Kirwan, a generous reader, has sent me a high-resolution photo of the newspaper spread where you can read it yourself.
Chris Noble spotted this in the Columbus Dispatch: Eastern Standard Tribe topped their list of summer reading:
Eastern Standard Tribe
In a quick-paced, near-future satire by Cory Doctorow, a man is betrayed
by his Internet ”tribe.” (Tor, $23.95)Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold’s sequel to The Curse of Chalion is high fantasy
about a madwoman who challenges the gods. (Eos, $24.95)The Salt Roads
An African goddess of love connects three women separated by centuries
and continents in a magic- realist novel by Nalo Hopkinson. (Warner
Books, $22.95)The Zenith Angle
Ubergeek turns cyber-warrior in the aftermath of Sept. 11, with all the
usual Bruce Sterling insights and surprises. (Del Rey, $24.95)
Thanks, Chris!
Back when I lived in San Francisco, the nice people at Borderlands Books did this super-cool thing where they’d take orders for my books, along with details for personal inscriptions, then get me to sign them when I dropped round the store, and ship them for free within the US (and for a modest fee elsewhere).
Of course, that became a lot less practical last winter, when I moved to London. But you’ve got another chance to get a signed, inscribed book shipped right to your door: I’m swinging briefly through SF in June (and I do mean *briefly* — sorry, no time to socialize) and I’m gonna stop by Borderlands and sign any stock that they have. If you get your order in before June 15, I’ll sign your copy that week and you’ll have it before July 1 — pretty cool!
Borderlands’ contact info is
866 Valencia St.
San Francisco CA 94110 USA
415 824-8203
888 893-4008
Call or email them with your order and payment details and they’ll get you sorted out.
My short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, a juried prize that goes to the best Canadian science fiction book each year. I am pleased as PUNCH.
The wonderful online sf mag Infinity Plus has just published an excerpt from my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
Argosy Magazine (with Charlie Stross)
The Infinite Matrix, January 2006
Charlie and I wrote this sequel to our novella Jury Service as a kind of bookend, and published the two together as a fixup we called The Rapture of the Nerds, a title we nicked off of Ken McLeod.
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The 2004 Aurora Award nomination form is up online — this is the award given to the best science fiction works by Canadians or people living in Canada. Canadians and people living in Canada are eligible to nominate.
For the record, my eligible works for this ballot are:
Best Novel: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Tor, January 2003
Best Short-Form Work: Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers, Asimov’s, June 2003
Flowers From Alice, New Faces in Science Fiction (Mike Resnick, ed.), December, 2003
Printed Meat and Nattering Packages, Business 2.0, May 2003
Road Calls Me Dear, The Mammoth Book of Road Stories, January 2003
Nominations are due July 17th (my birthday!).
Review:
San Francisco Chronicle
Unlike the characters in “Down and Out,” who could be killed and easily resurrected through advances in nanotechnology, Art and the supporting cast of “Eastern Standard Tribe” are thoroughly mortal, blessed only with “comms,” phonelike devices that put incredible computing power at everyone’s fingertips. Their vulnerability gives “Eastern Standard Tribe” an urgency and poignancy that Doctorow’s first novel lacked. One definitely finds oneself rooting for poor, beleaguered Art, and Doctorow resolves his plight with a satisfying dose of suspense and humor.
Michael Berry
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
Review:
Vancouver Sun
While some might consider Doctorow a booster for the online, wired lifestyle, his books contain subtle but pointed warnings about the flaws of high tech societies. Being a Tribalist, living out of circadian synch with the people around you, relating with people you mainly know as a handle on a screen, encourages paranoia and disloyalty, smartness instead of happiness. Art becomes an object lesson in how such a society can ruin a person, and his salvation doesn’t lie in technology.
Peter Tupper,
Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun
