Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger at Pluralistic, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

He is a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

Some of his many books include “Chokepoint Capitalism” (with Rebecca Giblin) (2022), a nonfiction book about creative labor markets and monopoly; “Attack Surface” (2020), a standalone sequel to “Little Brother” intended for adults, “Poesy the Monster Slayer,” a picture book for young children (2020), the nonfiction tech/politics book “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (2020), “Radicalized” (2019) and “Walkaway” (2017), science fiction for adults; and “In Real Life,” a young adult graphic novel created with Jen Wang (2014).

One of his young adult novels is “Homeland,” the bestselling sequel to “Little Brother.” His New York Times Bestseller “Little Brother” was published in 2008. In 2023 he published “The Internet Con,” a nonfiction book about monopoly and radical interoperability. More of his novels for adults include: “Red Team Blues” and “The Lost Cause.” His latest short story collection is “With a Little Help,” available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and limited edition hardcover. In 2011, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called “Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century” (with an introduction by Tim O’Reilly) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called “Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now.” “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” a PM Press Outspoken Authors chapbook, was also published in 2011.

“Little Brother” was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America’s top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008; it was the San Francisco Public Library’s One City/One Book choice for 2013. It has also been adapted for stage by Josh Costello.