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[[Cory Doctorow]] is a Canadian science fiction writer, blogger, and founder of the geek news site [http://www.boingboing.net Boing Boing].▼
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Doctorow is one of the more famous and vocal proponents of Creative Commons, and the idea that [[Information Wants to Be Free|information should be shared, not protected]], is a common theme throughout many of his books. All of his work is available, for free, under a Creative Commons License, on [http://www.craphound.com/ his website.]▼
▲Doctorow is one of the more famous and vocal proponents of Creative Commons, and the idea that [[Information Wants to Be Free|information should be shared, not protected]], is a common theme throughout many of his books. All of his work is available, for free, under a Creative Commons License, on [http://www.craphound.com/ his website.] He does not like [[Facebook]]'s business model, and has on at least one occasion urged people to delete their Facebook accounts.
If you read [[Xkcd]], you probably know him as [[Hey, It's That Guy!|that guy]] who wears a red cape and goggles.▼
In an online chat on April 28, 2020 (edited and curated [https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/canada-reads-author-cory-doctorow-answered-your-questions-here-s-what-he-had-to-say-1.5542868 here]), he named [[Ada Palmer]], [[Wendy Liu]], [[Karl Schroeder]], [[Naomi Kritzer]], [[Amal al-Mohtar]], [[Tochi Onyebuchi]], [[Bruce Sterling]], [[William Gibson]], [[Neal Stephenson]], [[Peter Watts]], and [[Nalo Hopkinson]] as some of the authors who tackle technology and humanity's relationship with it in ways he admires.
* [[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]] (2003)▼
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* [[Eastern Standard Tribe]] (2004)▼
* [[Little Brother]] (2008)▼
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* [[Makers]] (2009)▼
Novels:
* [[For the Win]] (2010)▼
▲* ''[[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]]'' (2003)
▲* ''[[Eastern Standard Tribe]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town]]'' (2005)
* The M1K3Y series:
▲** ''[[Little Brother]]'' (2008)
** ''[[Homeland (Cory Doctorow novel)|Homeland]]'' (February 5, 2013)
▲* ''[[Makers]]'' (2009)
▲* ''[[For the Win]]'' (2010)
* ''[[The Rapture of the Nerds]]'' (September 2012, with [[Charles Stross]])
* ''[[Pirate Cinema]]'' (October 12, 2012)
* ''[[Walkaway]]'' (April 25, 2017)
* ''The Lost Cause'' (still being written as of April 2020 - "the protagonist, a Canadian-born teen who lives with his grandfather in Burbank, California, was orphaned at eight when a zoonotic pandemic called 'rabbit flu' killed his parents in Toronto")
Graphic Novels:
* ''[[In Real Life]]'' (October 14, 2014; illustrated by Jen Wang)
* ''Poesy the Monster Slayer'' (July 14, 2020; illustrated by Matt Rockefeller)
Short stories, collections, and non-fiction are listed [[wikipedia:Cory Doctorow#Bibliography|at The Other Wiki]].
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