TY - ABST T1 - Attack Surface Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a loosely connected series following Little Brother (2008) and Homeland (2013). This volume follows one of the minor characters from Little Brother, a woman who, as an adult, sells her skills to a corporation that helps the dictators of the world with the woman also assisting her friends who are trying to overthrow the same people. The novel focuses on her actions after she is forced to make a choice. A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Tor.com. Illus. Yuko Shimizu. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250757531 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed discusses a future where bad government regulated combined with poorly automated private regulation of social media has badly damaged free speech. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Materiality" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313 N1 -

Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Model Minority” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical dystopia on the treatment of minorities in the United States. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unauthorized Bread" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of a woman who is a refugee recently permitted to live in the U.S. as she moves through the system and focuses on the dystopia that is that system. The woman and others caught in the system fight back using their knowledge of technology. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walkaway Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a future authoritarian dystopia with very advanced technology in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed and abandoned and with extreme class divisions. Some people choose to walk away into the abandoned countryside hoping to create a freer society. While they are forcibly opposed by those in power and not all those who walk away are trustworthy, a freer society does emerge. The title resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scroogled” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Sold the Moon” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use. 

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeland Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765333698 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Cinema Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - For the Win Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.

JF - Godlike Machines PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Makers Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765319852 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia seen through the eyes of someone who has been a secular monk living inside a walled compound for sixteen years who has to go out into the world of an authoritarian dystopia where everyone must conform to unstated rules.

UR - http://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 202-46 with an editors' note on 201; in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download. Ed. Rich Horton ([Stirling, NJ]: Wyrm Publishing, 2009), 256-95; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 197-228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "(Coping With) Norm Deviation" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that is the story of a film being made. The dystopia focuses on the elimination of people who deviate from the norm.

JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Persephone's Library" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.

JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U3 -

Khria Deefholts [pseud]. The author also used the name Anduril Elessar

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Printcrime" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.

JF - Nature VL - 439.7073 N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "i, robot" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.

JF - Infinite Matrix UR - http://www.infinitematrix.net. N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.

PB - The Coppervale Company CY - Silvertown, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.6 (329) U5 -

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