Cory Doctorow. PM (IPG, dist.), $12 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60486-404-5
This short collection harnesses the harmlessly nihilistic title story with the essay “Creativity vs. Copyright” and Terry Bisson’s interview with Doctorow. In the novella, a young man wanders an America where extremist factions armed with powerful...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9276-3
Doctorow (Homeland) expects more patience for superfluous eccentricities than many readers may be able to provide in this unengaging novel set in 2071. For example, his opening sentence begins with the name of a character ultimately referred to as...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor Teen, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3369-8
In this rousing sequel to Little Brother, Marcus has gone to college, dropped out, and is looking for a job—no easy task in this near-future America’s worsening recession. While attending the spectacular Burning Man festival, Marcus and his...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor Teen, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2908-0
Doctorow (Little Brother; For the Win) returns with another down-and-dirty tale of technological guerrilla warfare. Set in a near-future England where Big Entertain-ment is pressuring Parliament into criminalizing illicit downloading and handing out
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0436-0
A lot of ideas are packed into this short novel, but Doctorow's own best idea was setting his story in Disney World, where it's hard to tell whether technology serves dreams or vice versa. Jules, a relative youngster at more than a century...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor Teen $17.99 (475p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2216-6
Doctorow uses video games to get teenage readers to think more about globalization, economics, and fair labor practices in this expansive but ponderous story. Set, like his earlier Little Brother
, in a near-future world, it centers on attempts to...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1279-2
In this tour de force, Doctorow (Little Brother
) uses the contradictions of two overused SF themes—the decline and fall of America and the boundless optimism of open source/hacker culture—to draw one of the most brilliant reimaginings...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor $17.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1985-2
SF author Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
), coeditor of the influential blog BoingBoing, tells a believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco, victimized first by terrorists and then by an out-of-control Department of...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Thunder's Mouth $15.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-56025-981-7
An unabashed promulgator of the Internet and its democratic potential,
\t\t Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe) explores
\t\t the benefits and consequences of online systems in this provocative collection
\t\t of six mostly long stories. "When...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1278-5
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...
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Cory Doctorow, Author . Tor $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0759-0
John W. Campbell Award–winner Doctorow lives up to the promise of his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
(2003), with this near-future, far-out blast against human duplicity and smothering bureaucracy. Even though it takes a...
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Cory Doctorow, Author, Bruce Sterling, Introduction by . Four Walls Eight Windows $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56858-286-3
Postcyberpunk Doctorow, a rising Canadian SF star, follows his Orwellian Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) with nine too-near-future tales of aliens and the human alienated—and it's often hard to tell the difference. In "Craphou
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Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. Tor, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2910-3
Doctorow (Little Brother) and Stross (Rule 34) take a comic tour of a post-Singularity solar system where posthumans dump digital junk on the “pre-posthumans” who cling to terrestrial life. Huw Jones, a Welsh potter abandoned by parents who ascended
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Cory Doctorow, foreword by Tim O’Reilly. Tachyon, $14.95 (243p) ISBN 978-1-61696-048-3
Doctorow (who writes a column for Publishers Weekly) has aroused controversies in the past by making free downloads of his books (Little Brother; Content) available at the same time they are sold in stores, and he has lectured and written widely on...
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Cory Doctorow, read by Bruce Mann. Listening Library, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $57 ISBN 978-0-307-87957-8
In Doctorow’s novel set in the not too distant future, 16-year-old Trent McCauley gets his family in big trouble due to his unrepentant Internet piracy. With things going badly at home and the family banned from the Internet, Trent opts to run away...
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Cory Doctorow, illus. by Jen Wang. First Second, $17.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-59643-658-9
In a heartfelt and of-the-moment story, Doctorow draws on his technology acumen and activism to portray the intricacies of 21st-century global citizenry, while also touching on what it means to be a gamer (particularly a female one). After joining...
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Cory Doctorow. McSweeney’s, $25 (218p) ISBN 978-1-940450-28-5
The Internet has expanded and cluttered the debate over intellectual property with technical terms and special interests, but Doctorow (Rapture of the Nerds), co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and a contributor to Publishers Weekly, breaks...
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-390-7
Guran presents 20 reprints about postapocalyptic survival, all first published between 2008 and 2012. Scenarios include genetic mutation (Margo Lanagan’s “The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross,” Nnedi Okorafor’s “Tumaki”), the threat of nuclear war (B
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Edited by Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-78909-501-2
The 15 pieces in this diverse, enjoyable anthology—all of which were featured in episodes of the Escape Pod podcast—showcase the wide variety of ideas the short science fiction story can accommodate. Kameron Hurley’s “Citizens of Elsewhere” puts a...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-22858-1
Author and blogger Doctorow’s thought-provoking latest story collection considers several possibilities of a future America. All of the tales are linked together by desperation borne out of trying times. “Unauthorized Bread” chronicles the attempts...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-75753-1
Doctorow returns to the dystopian, all-too-near future of Little Brother for this gripping cyberthriller. Doctorow’s potty-mouthed protagonist, Masha Maximow, a technological wunderkind fans will recognize from the earlier novels, is morally...
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Cory Doctorow, illus. by Matt Rockefeller. First Second, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-362-7
Some children fear monsters at bedtime, but Poesy welcomes them. Her pink “monster lair” features gothic art and stuffed animals, and she makes her father read The Book of Monsters from cover to cover before lights out. “PLEASE stay in bed tonight,”
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Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. Beacon, $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0706-8
Melbourne Law School professor Giblin (Code Wars) and Boing Boing cofounder Doctorow (Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free) deliver a lucid and damning exposé of how big business captured the culture markets. Contending that anticompetitive practices
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $27.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-86584-7
Bestseller Doctorow (Little Brother) plumbs the murky systems of cryptocurrency in this earnest techno-thriller and series launch. Martin Hench, a 67-year-old forensic accountant turned hacker for hire, is kept from retiring by one last job for a...
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Cory Doctorow. Verso, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-804-29124-5
Journalist and novelist Doctorow (Red Team Blues) details a plan for how to break up Big Tech in this impassioned and perceptive manifesto. Today’s large tech companies are legally able to quash “interoperators” (defined as: “new technologies that...
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-86593-9
Doctorow (Red Team Blues) plausibly imagines a near future in which catastrophic climate change has made multiple coastal cities around the world uninhabitable. Though the passage of a Green New Deal in the U.S. has helped combat rising temperatures,
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Cory Doctorow. Tor, $27.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-86587-8
Doctorow’s second financial thriller featuring forensic accountant Martin Hench (after 2023’s Red Team Blues) prioritizes satire over realism, marring a plot centered on very real concerns about the privatization of prisons and the lead-up to the...
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