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Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund auctioning off tuckerizations in forthcoming sf works, including one of mine
The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund is a venerable institution that sends sf fans from North America to Europe and vice-versa, to bridge the world's fandoms (there are other funds that bring together fans from other parts of the world). Frank Wu, Anne KG Murphy and Brian Gray are fundraising for this ...
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Charlie Stross
David Brin
Elizabeth Bear
Nice, short profile in today's Wall St Journal about pursuing a career in the nonprofit sector:
For those who are interested in doing the same, he stresses the importance of volunteering for a cause first. "Your best bet is to join up with a cause pro bono or part time," he says. "You have ...
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John did a wicked-cool set of data-visualizations of the text of my story Anda's Game : "I picked terms for the trees that were relevant to the themes of the story - gold, for in-game items and Fahrenheit, which is a clan in the story."
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My latest Guardian column looks at Peter Mandelson's new "Digital Economy Bill," a sweeping piece of proposed British legislation that would give Mandelson broad powers to act as the Pirate-Finder General, with the implausible aim of reducing UK file-sharing by 70 percent in one year.
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Peter Copley
The lovely folks at the Starship Sofa podcast recorded audio versions of my recent short story To Go Boldly (published in The New Space Opera 2 ), as well as the Publishers Weekly article describing my forthcoming short story collection With a Little Help .
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Last week I sat down for an interview with the excellent Command Line podcast at Philcon and recorded a long talk on sundry subjects ranging from politics to creativity to all my forthcoming projects.
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My latest Make: column, "Shortcut to Omniscience," talks about the cognitive shift that Wikipedians undergo in order to collaboratively write an encyclopedia, and how that kind of fundamental, subtle change enables networked groups of people to do things that were previously considered ...
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Here's part two of Spider Robinson's reading of my story Human Readable, recorded for my collection WITH A LITTLE HELP.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
The audiobook of my latest novel, Makers has been published by Random House Audio, strictly in DRM-free formats over the net (this means that Apple won't carry it in the iTunes store, even though Audible was willing to carry it without DRM).
The reading is by Bernadette Dunne, a very ...
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Here's part two of the podcast of my story in progress, MARTIAN CHRONICLES, being written for Jonathan Strahan's YA Mars book, LIFE ON MARS.
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Martian Chronicles
Life on Mars
Here's the audio from my reading last week at the Harvard Bookstore , along with Q&A.
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Here's an interview I did with Radio Berkman -- the podcast of the Berkman Center at Harvard.
Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©
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Congrats to my wife Alice, on winning four British Interactive Media Awards ! What a clever spouse -- I'm a lucky, lucky man..
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Here's an interview I conducted with Straylight Magazine, ranging over many subjects -- Makers, the craft of writing, and the business of publishing.
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This weekend, I'll be wrapping up my US/Canada tour for Makers , my new novel, with a weekend at Philcon , near Philadelphia. I'll be signing books, doing a reading, giving a speech, and appearing on several panels. Hope to see you there!
Important note : I had previously announced a ...
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Ginger Coons did a great interview with me last week for Concordia's paper The Link . Good meaty policy questions ahoy!
Enhanced Driver’s Licenses are being adopted in order to comply with newly-created American regulations on what constitutes an acceptable document for crossing the border. ...
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Here's a mid-1980s CBC News scare-story about Dungeons and Dragons driving kids to suicide featuring (at 2:49 onwards) me and my classmates (the video is dated 1985, but I'm pretty sure this couldn't have been later than my graduation from Junior High in 1984). Ignoring the crazy-ass ...
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Nice piece in today's National Post about Makers and my approach to publishing:
Presently, Doctorow is in the midst of a short North American book tour promoting Makers, which, like all his work, is free to download from his website, craphound.com,under a Creative Commons licence, which ...
