Review:

Bruce Sterling

He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow!

Bruce Sterling
Author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction
Review:

Gardner Dozois

Cory Doctorow is one of our best new writers: smart, daring, savvy, entertaining, ambitious, plugged-in, and as good a guide to the wired world of the twenty-first century that stretches out before us as you’re going to find.

Gardner Dozois
Editor, Asimov’s SF
Review:

David Marusek

Few writers boggle my sense of reality as much as Cory Doctorow. His vision is so far out there, you’ll need your GPS to find your way back.

David Marusek,
Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Award, Nebula Award nominee

A Place So Foreign and Eight More

/ / Novels

This is not technically a novel, but rather a collection of my short fiction. This book won the 2004 Starbust Award for Best Canadian Science Fiction Book, and sports a kick-ass introduction by cyperpunk legend Bruce Sterling. Many of the stories in this have won or been nominated for prestigious awards, including the Nebula and Sturgeon awards.

Six of the nine stories are available as a free download in a multitude of formats, as well as a physical object at bookstores everywhere.

Audio edition courtesy of Podiobooks.

Review:

SFSite

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a short novel, only just clocking up two hundred pages. This is an entirely welcome thing at a time when twice that length seems to have become a bare minimum. It’s quick and snappy, pared of all flab. It is not, though it has often been called it, a fun book. This perception is probably due to Doctorow’s sprightly, bantering style. The story itself however is concerned with betrayal and mental breakdown. In this, Paul Di Filippo is right on the money when he identifies Doctorow as being aligned with the axis of serious jocularity (he could also have been describing himself.)

Martin Lewis,
SFSite

NIMBY and the D-Hoppers

/ / Stories

Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

The Infinite Matrix, July 2008

Podcast:
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three

Year’s Best Science Fiction 9 (edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer)

Solaris Magazine (French Translation by Elisabeth Vonarburg), 2004

Sci Fi World (Chinese translation), September 2004

ESLI Magazine (Russian translation), 2005

Bli-Panika (Hebrew translation), 2005

Italian Translation, 2006, by Giovanni Ella

This one literally came to me in a dream: I woke up one morning, shortly after moving to San Francisco, with this whole story in my head. I wrote it over the next two weeks, and, what, three years later?, Asimov’s finally published it!

This story has also been translated into French by Elisabeth Vonarburg, for the Quebecois magazine Solaris in 2004. You can download it from here under a Creative Commons license.

In 2005, the Russian SF magazine ESLI reprinted this magazine in Russian translation. Download it here under a Creative Commons license.

Here’s a 1.7MB Tarball of this story in Chinese, with illustrations, taken from the September 2004 ish of Sci Fi World magazine. It’s offered under a liberal Creative Commons license — enjoy!
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