Cory Doctorow Accepted My Invitation
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nemorathwaldCory Doctorow has replied to my e-mail inviting him to Penguicon 3.0. Not only is he willing to be our honored guest, he's so enthusiastic he's already suggested a half-dozen schedule events! I can't describe how geeked I am about this without lapsing into Lojban.
Cory Doctorow is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is author of two of my personal all-time favorite novels, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe. He is the winner of the 2003 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the 2000 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He was also a 2003 Nebula nominee.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom concerns a reputation economy in a future of immortality and no physical need, where ad-hocracies (very similar to SF convention committees) have taken over Walt Disney World as a hobby. Eastern Standard Tribe is about internet tribes based on time zones and involves digital rights management and the choice between smarts and happiness. All are distributed for free under the Creative Commons License, which is to art and literature what the Open Source License is to software. Read them for free! And like me, you might run out and buy them just to vote with your wallet. Don't make me hold you down and download them into your pocket computer by force!
The next novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (forthcoming in February 2005) is a contemporary fantasy novel about open WiFi networking, set in Toronto's Kensington Market. He co-edits the weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net) a popular blog with millions of monthly readers, and is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine, Popular Science, Business 2.0 and other magazines and newspapers. Though he resides in London, UK, Cory is a native Torontonian, and while there, he co-founded OpenCola, an open-source P2P company that was sold last year to Toronto's OpenText, Inc. In addition to software it sold an actual beverage with a public recipe that anyone could make, as an analogy with open source.
Cory Doctorow is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is author of two of my personal all-time favorite novels, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe. He is the winner of the 2003 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the 2000 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He was also a 2003 Nebula nominee.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom concerns a reputation economy in a future of immortality and no physical need, where ad-hocracies (very similar to SF convention committees) have taken over Walt Disney World as a hobby. Eastern Standard Tribe is about internet tribes based on time zones and involves digital rights management and the choice between smarts and happiness. All are distributed for free under the Creative Commons License, which is to art and literature what the Open Source License is to software. Read them for free! And like me, you might run out and buy them just to vote with your wallet. Don't make me hold you down and download them into your pocket computer by force!
The next novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (forthcoming in February 2005) is a contemporary fantasy novel about open WiFi networking, set in Toronto's Kensington Market. He co-edits the weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net) a popular blog with millions of monthly readers, and is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine, Popular Science, Business 2.0 and other magazines and newspapers. Though he resides in London, UK, Cory is a native Torontonian, and while there, he co-founded OpenCola, an open-source P2P company that was sold last year to Toronto's OpenText, Inc. In addition to software it sold an actual beverage with a public recipe that anyone could make, as an analogy with open source.
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Hip hip horraaay!!!
Date: 2004-08-31 09:10 am (UTC)Re: Hip hip horraaay!!!
Date: 2004-08-31 10:25 am (UTC)Re: Hip hip horraaay!!!
Date: 2004-08-31 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: Hip hip horraaay!!!
Date: 2004-08-31 06:51 pm (UTC)Wooo!
Date: 2004-08-31 12:13 pm (UTC)I've heard about him before, just not described as enthusiastically as you've described him. :)
/me must pick up one of his books, and thinks I'll start off with Eastern Standard Tribe
-Kare
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Date: 2004-08-31 02:49 pm (UTC)We'll cross the travel bridge when we get there...
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:29 pm (UTC)YAAAAAY!
Date: 2004-09-01 03:44 am (UTC)-=ShoEboX=-
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Date: 2004-09-01 03:33 pm (UTC)2005 is filling up already....