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Cory Doctorow

Canada (b.1971)

Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Little Brother. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, and is the only author to have won both the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Campbell Award for best SF Novel of the Year. He is the co-editor of BoingBoing.net, writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus and has been named one of the internet's top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Cory Doctorow lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult Fantasy

New Books

November 2023

The Canadian Miracle

November 2023

The Lost Cause

February 2024

The Bezzle
(Martin Hench, book 2)

Series

Overclocked
   Overclocked (2007)
   1. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2015)
   2. Anda's Game (2015)
   3. I, Robot (2014)
   5. After the Siege (2015)

Little Brother
   1. Little Brother (2008)
   2. Homeland (2013)
   2.5. Lawful Interception (2013)
   3. Attack Surface (2020)

Martin Hench
1. Red Team Blues (2023)
2. The Bezzle (2024)

Novels

   Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
   Eastern Standard Tribe (2004)
   Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
   Makers (2009)
   For the Win (2010)
   The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Charles Stross)
   Pirate Cinema (2012)
   Walkaway (2017)
   The Lost Cause (2023)

Collections

   A Place So Foreign (2003)
   With a Little Help (2009)
   Haunted Mansion Volume 2 (2010) (with others)
   Watchlist (2016) (with others)
   With a little help: little help (2017)
   Radicalized (2019)

Picture Books

Poesy the Monster Slayer (2020)

Graphic Novels

Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now (2008)
In Real Life (2014)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Craphound (1998)
   The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away (2015)
   True Names (2015)
   Party Discipline (2017)
   The Canadian Miracle (2023)

Non fiction

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Series contributed to

Tesseracts
11. Tesseracts 11 (2007) (with Holly Phillips)

Outspoken Authors
8. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (2011)

Some of the Best from Tor.com
Some of the Best From Tor.com: 2013 Edition (2013) (with others)

Anthologies containing stories by Cory Doctorow

The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)

Awards

	John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (2000)
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2005) : Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (2009) : Little Brother
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (2009) : Little Brother
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2009) : Little Brother
	Prometheus Award Best Book winner (2009) : Little Brother
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2010) : Makers
	Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2010) : Makers
	Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2011) : For the Win
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2013) : The Rapture of the Nerds
	Prometheus Award Best Book winner (2013) : Pirate Cinema
	Prometheus Award Best Book winner (2014) : Homeland

Cory Doctorow recommends

The Book of Love (2024)
Kelly Link
"A giant, glorious novel about friendship, love, queerness, rock-and-roll, stardom, parenthood, loyalty, lust and duty."

Liberty's Daughter (2023)
Naomi Kritzer
"Kritzer's got a sharp knife and she slips it in so smoothly that you barely notice that you're bleeding. The best sf uses the future to make a point about the present, and Kritzer's got today's enshittified, profit-worshipping, sociopathic present's number."

Glass Children (2023)
Carlton Mellick III
"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale."

Crazy in Poughkeepsie (2022)
Daniel Pinkwater
"The Pinkwaterverse is a place of delight and camaraderie, wordplay and weirdness, magic and epic sojourns. Each Pinkwater novel is a novelty and unmistakably part of his vast literary legacy. Crazy in Poughkeepsie is a trip to whale heaven, an afterlife that we can all aspire to."

The Actual Star (2021)
Monica Byrne
"The Actual Star is a book about sacrifice, about the long view and deep time, about the universality of human experience and the particularity of any given moment. It's a first-rate work of sf, and a hopeful and fearful book about the climate. It's just great."

The First Law of Thermodynamics (2021)
James Patrick Kelly
"Kelly's special genius is in writing stories that are so human that they wrench and warm your heart at the same moment."

Together We Will Go (2021)
J Michael Straczynski
"Everything I read made me want to stand up and salute. I can't stress enough how significant and moving (to say nothing of gripping and sometimes hilarious) this book is. It's a magnificent piece of work that will stay with me for a long, long time."

Rabbits (2021)
(Rabbits, book 1)
Terry Miles
"A taut mystery for a time of conspiratorial madness, a frightening romp that forcefully reminds us of the terrible plausibility of conspiratorial thinking."

Robot Artists and Black Swans (2021)
Bruce Sterling
"Utterly unlike Sterling and unmistakably the work of Sterling: Robot Artists & Black Swans is a sardonic, madcap tour through the grand passions and strange centuries of Italian sf."

Stealing Worlds (2019)
Karl Schroeder
"Schroeder's world building is, as always dazzling."

Infinite Detail (2019)
Tim Maughan
"Maughan conducts a masterclass in the thrill and contradictions of counterculture, the uses and abuses of networks, the ways that capitalism can bend and flex to adapt, until, suddenly, it breaks. This is a stunning debut."

They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded (2018)
(All Those Explosions, book 2)
James Alan Gardner
"Snappy dialogue madcap action."

Irontown Blues (2018)
(Eight Worlds, book 4)
John Varley
"This is vintage Varley: supremely weird, superbly told, and with nary a lull in the action."

84 K (2018)
Claire North
"An extraordinary novel that stands with the best of dystopian fiction, from Nineteen Eighty Four to The Chrysalids, with dashes of The Handmaid's Tale."

Starlings (2018)
Jo Walton
"Stephen King once wrote that ‘a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger' - that is, sudden, pleasant, mysterious, dangerous and exciting - and the collected short fiction of Jo Walton is exemplary of the principle."

The Will to Battle (2017)
(Terra Ignota, book 3)
Ada Palmer
"More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut i can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like the Lightning."

Autonomous (2017)
Annalee Newitz
"Everything you'd hope for from the co-founder of io9 ... Combines the gonzo, corporatized future of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash with the weird sex of Charlie Stross's Saturn's Children; throws in an action hero that's a biohacker version of Bruce Sterling's Leggy Starlitz, and then saturates it with decades of deep involvement with free software hackers, pop culture, and the leading edge of human sexuality."

Tropic of Kansas (2017)
Christopher Brown
"Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not ‘make America great again,’ but then again, it just might."

The Free (2017)
Lauren McLaughlin
"A tight, claustrophobic novel that veers between the terror and camaraderie of incarceration; I don't know when I've read a more empathic novel, and it's been a long time since I read one that was more sorrowful and joyful at the same time."

The Liberation (2016)
(Alchemy War, book 3)
Ian Tregillis
"Tremendous."

My Sister Rosa (2016)
Justine Larbalestier
"Beats The Silence of the Lambs for suspense—it's the kind of book that had me literally gasping aloud as it rattled to its incredible conclusion."

Steeplejack (2016)
(Steeplejack, book 1)
A J Hartley
"A richly realized world, an intensely likable character, and a mystery to die for."

Every Heart a Doorway (2016)
(Wayward Children, book 1)
Seanan McGuire
"This is a gorgeous story: sometimes mean, sometimes angry, and always exciting."

The Library At Mount Char (2015)
Scott Hawkins
"A first-rate novel… a sprawling, epic contemporary fantasy about cruelty and the end of the world, compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable."

Lock In (2014)
(Lock In, book 1)
John Scalzi
"Scalzi takes his work to an entirely new level."

Expiration Day (2014)
William Campbell Powell
"A remarkable and heart-filled look at what it means to be human."

Maplecroft (2014)
(Borden Dispatches, book 1)
Cherie Priest
"Priest can write scenes that are jump-out-of-your-skin scary."

Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess (2012)
(Girl Genius, book 2)
Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio
"Tremendous fun"

vN (2012)
(Machine Dynasty, book 1)
Madeline Ashby
"vN did not disappoint. It is a fantastic adventure story that carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never boring."

Planesrunner (2011)
(Everness , book 1)
Ian McDonald
"Action-packed, wildly imaginative and full of heart."

Deathless (2011)
Catherynne M Valente
"Romantic and blood-streaked, and infused with magic so real you can feel it on your fingertips - Deathless is beautiful."

The Unidentified (2010)
Rae Mariz
"SUBVERSIVE, cleverly written, CHALLENGING, and SURPRISING."

Struts & Frets (2009)
Jon Skovron
"Will feel instantly authentic to anyone who's ever felt the pride and shame of being an outsider."

The Ant King (2008)
Benjamin Rosenbaum
"Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."

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