Cory Doctorow

Sunday February 24th, 3 p.m.

We are thrilled to bring sci-fi master Cory Doctorow to Gibson's for the sequel to the multi-award winning, New York Times bestselling Little Brother, Homeland.

Little Brother was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.

Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novels like For the Win and the bestselling Little Brother. He is the co-editor for the popular weblog BoingBoing.net, and runs Craphound.com. He was also the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Cory has written for Wired, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Make, Locus and others. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.

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Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK) and Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo (Canada); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland (Tor, $17.99) is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

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Homeland is the the direct sequel to Doctorow's debut Young Adult title Little Brother in which Marcus Yallow finds himself once again risking everything to take on creeping tyranny and surveillance after California's economy collapses.

Doctorow is an editor at Boing Boing and writes columns for Make, Information Week, The Guardian online and Locus. He’s been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell, was named a top 25 web influencer by Forbes, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

He is the smartest speaker we’ve ever heard speak on any topic anywhere. Do not miss this event. Come early.

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From speculative fiction, deep space adventures, and alternate histories to epic fantasy realms, all who can admit their dorkdom are welcome. Join Joel and Tommy the third Monday of every month at 7PM. This month we will be discussing For the Win by Cory Doctrow.

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Cory Doctorow discusses Little Brother.

Cory Doctorow, author of Deerfield's 2012 One Book One Zip Code selection, Little Brother, will be speaking at the Deerfield High School on October 9, 2012 at 7pm. Please register in advance online at www.deerfieldlibrary.org or by calling 847-945-3311. Lake Forest Bookstore will be selling copies of the author's books, which he will sign following his talk. (DPLFictionRoom)… (more)

Cory Doctorow discusses Pirate Cinema.

Schuler is thrilled to present a talk and signing with Cory Doctorow, the bestselling author dubbed by Entertainment Weekly as "the William Gibson of his generation”! Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of the popular site Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling young adult novels Little Brother and For the Win, as well as a number of adult novels like recent release The Rapture of the Nerds, co-written with Charles Stross. His latest book is Pirate Cinema, a young adult novel that received a starred review in Booklist. This will be a ticketed event, with tickets available at our Eastwood Towne Center location when the store opens on October 2nd, the release day of the new book. The first 100 tickets are available free with purchase of Pirate Cinema (one ticket per book purchased) and guarantee a seat at the event. Tickets 101 and greater are free with no purchase necessary. The signing will proceed after the author talk in approximate ticket number order. Tickets may be reserved in person or by calling the store at 517.316.7495. (tapestry100)… (more)

Speculative fiction author and regular commentator (Boing Boing, craphound) on the sharing of information and art via technology Cory Doctorow’s characters share many of the same passions, including the teen film geeks and rebels in Pirate Cinema. In a dystopian near-future Britain, 16-year-old Trent McCauley’s passion for remixing old films leads to severe consequences for his family. The oppressive environment causes him to partake in a rebellion against the media and government powers seeking to criminalize his actions. See Jaclyn’s review of Cory’s September novel, The Rapture of the Nerds, co-authored with Charles Stross, on page 2.

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Trent McCauley is sixteen and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling downloaded footage. In near-future Britain where Trent is from, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times? Your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year. When Trent is caught, it nearly destroys his family – his father's living, his mother's health, and his kid sister's studies all depend on net access. Shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with the city's always-rambunctious street scene a demi-monde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize digital copying even more harmless than Trent's. The government is in the grip of a few wealthy media conglomerates, but the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the possibility of a movie that can change people's minds.

This discussion is free and open to the public. Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of Pirate Cinema from Vroman's, and one additional copy for every 3 books they bring from home. Save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line.

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Youth Event: Cory Doctorow

Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 p.m.

Pirate Cinema

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Little Brother, a new tale of brilliant young people resisting tyranny

Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal.

Trent's too clever for that to happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions at a stroke.

Things look bad. Parliament is in the power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people’s minds….

To confirm a seat, you may purchase the book at Kepler's prior to the event.

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Venue: St. Louis County Library

Cory Doctorow, coeditor of Boing Boing and author of the award-winning novel (and LBB favorite) Little Brother, introduces Trent, a brilliant sixteen-year-old obsessed with one thing--making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net--in Pirate Cinema. In the dystopian near-future where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever, and when Trent gets caught, everything changes.

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