Cory Doctorow Books
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A Place So Foreign
[english | 2000]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [A Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2. The collection features an introduction by Bruce Sterling and includes 0wnz0red which was nominated for the 2003 ...]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | creative commons] Downloads: 11
After The Siege
[english | 2007]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [The State of Siege is the fourth play by Albert Camus. Written in 1948 The State of Siegethe original sense is closer to state of emergencyis a play in three acts presenting the arrival of Plague personified by a young opportunist in sleepy Cadiz and the subsequent creation of a totalitarian regime through the manipulation of fear. Camus is of course thinking about Hitler but even more about ...]
Genres: [creative commons | fiction and literature] Downloads: 367
All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
[english | 2005]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Excellent diagnosis - insightful without pretending to have an answer]
Genres: [essays | computers | post 1930] Downloads: 121
Andas Game
[english | 2004]Cory Doctorow
Excerpts: [... as a response to Ray Bradbury describing Michael Moore as a crook for repurposing the title Fahrenheit 451 as Fahrenheit 9/11. Bradbury doesn't ...... sold this story to Salon, and it was later reprinted in Michael Chabon's Best American Short Stories (a story written by a Canadian about Brits, no ...... chickens: my battle record is 3,522 kills in a single battle. I have taken ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 227
Appeals Court
[english | 2005]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [I only made 15 pages of this one. Being Christian myself and not appreciating bad language replacing dialogue and plot I took it as long as I could. Dont recommend it myself.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 26
Content
[english | 2008]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Essays on copyright and the new millennium.]
Genres: [essays | creative commons | post 1930] Downloads: 261
Content Selected Essays On Technology Creativity Copyright And The Future Of The Future
[english | 2008]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Hailed by Bruce Sterling as ?a political activist gizmo freak junk collector programmer entrepreneur and all-around Renaissance geek? the Internet?s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles essays and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information?even if its just a free download of the newest Britney ...]
Genres: [non-fiction] Downloads: 478
Craphound
[english | 1998]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Craphound Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now by Cory Doctorow. Graphic book. 3 in series. 32 pages.]
Genres: [creative commons | post 1930 | science fiction] Downloads: 275
Cuando Los Administradores De Sistema Gobernaron La Tierra
[spanish | 2007]Cory Doctorow
Excerpts: [... de la construcci'on hab'ia cavado una zanja a trav'es del conducto principal del centro de datos y Felix se hab'ia unido a un equipo de cincuenta enfurecidos administradores ...... unos treinta a cuarenta kilos de m'as alrededor de su sector central y una barba prolija aunque abundante sobre su gruesa papada. Su camiseta dec'ia HOLA ...... de la Polic'ia Metropolitana. Con rapidez, ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 141
Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
[english | 2003]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [I did not see what all the hype was about - lame story of a society of ad-hocs who get whaffies (their version of money) based on how much people like or respect them.]
Genres: [science fiction | fiction and literature | post 1930] Downloads: 418
Eastern Standard Tribe
[english | 2004]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow. A comedy of loyalty betrayal sex madness and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He s doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be without a question the most counterintuitive user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto ...]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930 | creative commons] Downloads: 439
Ebooks Neither E Nor Books
[english | 2004]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [An interesting and rational look at why an author would willing give out his book free and in its entirety on the internet]
Genres: [essays | post 1930 | creative commons] Downloads: 144
For The Win
[english | 2010]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [In the virtual future you must organize to surviveAt any hour of the day or night millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games questing and battling to win virtual gold jewels and precious artifacts. Meanwhile others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy running electronic sweatshops in the worlds poorest countries where countless gold farmers bound to their ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | juvenile] Downloads: 124
Home Again Home Again
[english | 1999]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [A House is Not a Home is the 1953 autobiography of the famous New York madam Polly Adler.]
Genres: [creative commons | post 1930 | science fiction] Downloads: 46
I Robot
[english | 2005]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [The Lotus and the Robot is a 1960 book by Arthur Koestler exploring eastern mysticism. Although now dated by Westerners greater exposure to Oriental practices it concentrates mainly on Indian and Japanese traditions which form the two parts - the lotus and the robot respectively. Some of Koestlers comments read controversially now perhaps even racist but the book is also interesting for ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 35
I Row Boat
[english | 2006]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny is a non-fiction book written by Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson and published in 1989. It tells the story of the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford team known as the Oxford mutiny. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989 the awards inaugural year. Topolski was Oxfords rowing coach and the book describes ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 349
Jury Service
[english | 2002]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Welcome to the fractured future at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part they are happy with their lot living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 22
Little Brother
[english | 2008]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Brother Im Dying published in 2007 is a family memoir by novelist Edwidge Danticat. In 2007 the title won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was also nominated for the National Book Award.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | juvenile] Downloads: 479
Makers
[english | 2009]Cory Doctorow
Summary: [Perry and Lester invent thingsseashell robots that make toast Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems like the New Work a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lesters. Together they transform the country and Andrea Fleeks a journo-turned-blogger is ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 371
Nimby And The Dimension Hoppers
[english | 2003]Cory Doctorow
Excerpts: [... wrong - I like unspoiled wilderness. I like my sky clear and blue and my city free of the thunder of cars and jackhammers. I'm no technocrat. But goddamit, ...... and joined the beds. She curled her toes when I tickled her. We're still friends - hell, our houses are still next door to one another - but I haven't ...... said. What? Sally said again. She turned and said, Can you make ...]
Genres: [creative commons | post 1930 | short story] Downloads: 304