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Author photo. Cory Doctorow, photographed by Jonathan Worth

Cory Doctorow, photographed by Jonathan Worth

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Writer and activist Cory Doctorow was born in Toronto, Canada on July 17, 1971. In 1999 he co-founded a free software company called Opencola and served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. For four years he worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and in 2007 won its Pioneer Award. His first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, won a Locus Award for Best First Novel. His short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More won a Sunburst Award, and his bestselling novel Little Brother received the 2009 Prometheus Award, a Sunburst Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Doctorow also writes nonfiction books and articles, and he co-edits the blog Boing Boing. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Little Brother… (more)
Little Brother 5,408 copies, 388 reviews
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 2,404 copies, 117 reviews
Makers 1,211 copies, 70 reviews
Eastern Standard Tribe 1,189 copies, 35 reviews
For the Win 1,165 copies, 70 reviews
Homeland 928 copies, 46 reviews
Walkaway 906 copies, 40 reviews
In Real Life 895 copies, 76 reviews
Pirate Cinema 760 copies, 54 reviews
The Rapture of the Nerds 718 copies, 40 reviews
A Place So Foreign and Eight More 415 copies, 5 reviews
Radicalized 390 copies, 18 reviews
Attack Surface 223 copies, 12 reviews
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 154 copies, 4 reviews
With a Little Help 118 copies, 5 reviews
Clockwork Fagin 81 copies, 2 reviews
Red Team Blues 74 copies, 4 reviews
I, Robot [novelette] 62 copies, 4 reviews
Chicken Little 56 copies, 4 reviews
After The Siege 33 copies, 1 review
Craphound 26 copies, 1 review
Poesy the Monster Slayer 24 copies, 2 reviews
True Names 21 copies
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Anda's Game [short story] 17 copies, 1 review
Party Discipline 17 copies, 1 review
Scroogled 16 copies, 1 review
Printcrime 12 copies
Appeals Court 11 copies
The Man Who Sold the Moon 9 copies, 1 review
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Shannon's Law 8 copies, 1 review
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Martian Chronicles 5 copies, 1 review
To Go Boldly 4 copies
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Human Readable 4 copies, 1 review
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The Best American Short Stories 2005 (Contributor) 684 copies, 6 reviews
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Out on Blue Six (Introduction, some editions) 256 copies, 12 reviews
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Press Start to Play (Contributor) 239 copies, 11 reviews
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Year's Best SF 11 (Contributor) 226 copies, 4 reviews
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (Contributor) 225 copies, 8 reviews
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (Contributor) 212 copies, 3 reviews
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Robot Uprisings (Contributor) 177 copies, 5 reviews
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Contributor) 174 copies, 5 reviews
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Revisions (Contributor) 145 copies, 3 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (Contributor, some editions) 132 copies, 4 reviews
Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain (Introduction, some editions) 124 copies, 3 reviews
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