Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
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The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. Cory Doctorow
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit. Cory Doctorow
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
Like all security, privacy is hard. Cory Doctorow
Like all security, privacy is hard.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out. Cory Doctorow
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. Cory Doctorow
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. Cory Doctorow
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. Cory Doctorow
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. Cory Doctorow
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. Cory Doctorow
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. Cory Doctorow
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. Cory Doctorow
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. Cory Doctorow
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.