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Some people's futures are determined by popular vote: American Idol contestants, class presidents, and people who want to get gay married in California. But what if every aspect of our lives was determined by our reputation and popularity? Would our futures be better, or would the tyranny of the popular spin us into dystopia? More »
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I was lucky enough to catch a preview performance of the Custom Made Theatre Co.'s new stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's award-winning novel Little Brother the other day — and it was a total marvel. Somehow, writer/director Josh Costello managed to condense the novel down to a two-hour play, without losing any of the impact. If anything, the staged version hits a bit harder than the book, because of the intense, but not overstated, performances. More »
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Just in time for Halloween, this month's new book releases bring vampires! High sorcery! And wine magic! Plus: new books from Terry Pratchett, N.K. Jemisin, Vernor Vinge, and Richard K. Morgan! More »
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In a year or so, we'll have some utterly mind-blowing books to read, judging from some of the recently announced book deals. Here are some of the newly announced book deals that we're excited about! More »
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Check out the first trailer for Vintage Tomorrows, a forthcoming documentary about the steampunk movement. Authors, including Cherie Priest and Cory Doctorow, join enthusiasts to explain just why people are so excited about this one strand of retro-futurism. More »
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Now that science fiction and fantasy are accounting for a bigger share of young adult titles, it's only natural that SF publishers would want to move into publishing YA themselves. Pyr Books will publish some titles aimed at younger readers. More »
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Diane Duane has written many of our favorite books, including her Star Trek novels and The Door Into Fire. But when she decided to take donations and subscriptions for a sixth book in her feline wizards series, she discovered what many other authors will probably learn in the coming years: a self-published, crowd-funded book project can easily go astray. Duane has put out a long and heartfelt apology for the long delays in completion of the novel, which "will doubtless be the strongest candidate in any possible contest for the worst-managed online novel publication project in history." As Cory Doctorow points out over at BoingBoing, these sorts of delays happen to books all the time — but with a self-published, crowd-funded, serialized book, they're much more apparent to readers. Something to bear in mind if you decide to go the crowd-funded route. [BoingBoing via Christian Science Monitor] More »
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Give someone a whole new world for the holidays this year! Here are 10 recent science fiction books that'll make terrific gifts — each with a wildly different take on the genre, so there's something for everyone. More »
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A new anthology of Mars stories, coming from Viking next April, includes just about everybody you'd want to see in its table of contents. Kim Stanley Robinson, Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, and more. And the cover looks stunning. More »
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Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross have just signed with Tor Books to co-author a fix-up novel based on a series of short stories called Rapture of the Nerds. The authors and their editor told us what to expect. More »
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Can't wait for scarcity to end, and the Bitchun Society to begin? Us neither. That's why we're glad visionary writer R.U. Sirius has compiled his list of five positive science fiction novels to pass the time until the Singularity. [H-Plus] More »
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A truly great infodump is a work of art. The best science fiction authors can brief you on everything you need to know about their worlds, without making you feel lectured. Here are 20 great examples of the smooth infodump. More »
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We know that science fiction is a form of media that changes the future - it's influenced everyone from scientists to economists. But are new media technologies changing SF? The Small World podcast explores some answers. More »
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If you wished you could live off your sterling reputation, like the people in Cory Doctorow's Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, then rejoice — the Whuffie Bank has arrived. More »
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In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury envisioned a future where society had abandoned literature in favor of watching their screens. According to writer Philip Roth, we're getting closer to that future, and in 25 years, hardly anyone will be reading novels. More »
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Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, releases his new novel Makers in a few weeks. It's about amusement park ride hackers, and most of it is already online. We talked to Doctorow about Makers and the future of novel-writing. More »
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Last night, the 2009 Hugo Awards Ceremony brought together many of the genre's leading lights, and we were there. A few victories surprised us, and a couple of speeches moved us. Here's our gallery of the parties and the glamor. More »
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Congrats to Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow for sharing this year's Campbell Award, for Song Of Time and Little Brother respectively. But is it really true that U.S. publishers have been balking at publishing MacLeod's book? More »
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If you're jonesing for some whimsical outlaw techie culture in your life - and who isn't? - then you need to start reading Cory Doctorow's new novel Makers, which is being serialized pre-publication on Tor.com. More »
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Cory Doctorow's Little Brother showed the dangers of a police state run amuck, and showed how public-spirited techies fight back. Now the Libertarian Futurist Society has given Little Brother the 2009 Prometheus Award for libertarian SF. Image by Richard Wilkinson. More »
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Cory Doctorow's Hugo-nominated story of teen hackers thwarting a paranoid surveillance state, Little Brother, has been optioned by producer Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, From Hell.) Assuming it actually happens, which teen actor would you want to play Marcus? More »
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Young-adult authors have conquered science fiction with a mixture of angst, romance, and the discovery that adults are wrong. But Cory Doctorow's Hugo/Nebula-nominated Little Brother puts a geeky, subversive spin on that formula. Spoilers! More »
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Join scifi greats Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, with io9 editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, in San Francisco Monday night at a benefit for high tech civil liberties organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. More »
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The final episodes of Battlestar Galactica promise to reveal everything about the Cylon religion. But those toasters didn't invent robo-faith — here's a list of all the religions which robots have founded over the years. More »
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"I am actually a deep Whuffie sceptic. The problem is the same as with cash economics, the lack of social mobility and a winner-takes-all economy. It is also powerfully normative and punishing of minority viewpoints... Pretty much all transformational ideas are challenging to the status quo. A society that doesn't protect unpopular ideas is one that is probably doomed." — Cory Doctorow on "Whuffie," the reputation capital system he invented, in the Guardian. More »
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Computers are getting smaller, hard drives are getting cheaper, and processors are getting faster — but that doesn't mean we no longer have computers so huge that they fill entire floors of a building. It just means that when computers do fill an entire floor, they are crunching a shitload more data than they would have back in the mainframe days. These days, building-sized datacenters serve up everything from highly-granular genomic data to web pages that were deleted five years ago. Taking you deep inside these datacenters, full of massive, icy server rooms and crazed sysadmins, is scifi writer and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow. He's written a great article for Nature about visiting some of the biggest datacenters in the world, and it's free online. More »
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The biggest growth in science fiction publishing these days, hands down, is happening in the young adult market, and that's great news. While the "real" science fiction publishers are chasing a shrinking - and graying - readership, tweens and teens are discovering SF for themselves, thanks to books from a diverse range of writers. Best of all, YA science fiction isn't aimed at a subculture, but at everybody of a particular age. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5036820&view=rss&microfeed=true Tor.com continued their amazing series of original stories yesterday with a new novella by Little Brother's Cory Doctorow, entitled The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away. Go and read it; if it's not your kind of thing, you can fix that by editing it yourself, as it's the first Tor.com story to be released under a Creative Commons license, meaning that everyone is "encouraged to remix it, translate it, whatever," according to Doctrow himself. [Tor.com] More »
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Remember how we called the Locus Awards "possibly the most democratic" of the science fiction awards? Well, uh, never mind. The Locus Awards changed their rules after everyone had already voted, making Locus Magazine subscriber votes count twice as much as other votes, to deny Cory Doctorow the win for best short-story collection after his huge online following all voted for him. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023935&view=rss&microfeed=true Book industry blog Galleycat was at the Los Angeles Book Expo this past weekend, and posted about a panel with Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi where the blog-maniac SF authors talked about the value of online community (i.e., people who read and comment on blogs). Awesome Tor editor Patrick Nielson Hayden also joined them. Read the post to find out why SF writers and publishers love you. [Galleycat] More »
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They've published books, linked to and even interviewed each other, but now authors Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi are collectively wondering whether anyone is paying attention to their most recent books, and just what is the most under-appreciated genre of literature: Young Adult or Regular Science Fiction? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386990&view=rss&microfeed=true Scifi authors Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi both have books coming out (Little Brothers and Zoe's War respectively) that are aimed at young adults. It's great to see two smartypants writers aiming their often-subversive messages at the next generation. Now they've just done a great mutual interview about their new books, plus a little digression into lighting things on fire and putting bacon on cats. You can see the video on YouTube via BoingBoing. More »
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Don't get ripped off by unscrupulous intergalactic exchange bureaus! Consult our guide to alien money, including exchange rates with the U.S. dollar. Click through for a listing of currencies from Dune, Red Dwarf, Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and others. More »
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If ideas from William Gibson and Cory Doctorow got mashed up, and the resulting technology was stolen by the music industry in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate their bottom line, then you'd end up with U23D, the 3D concert movie of the future. io9 took a look at U23D this week, and the experience was flashbaked into our brain matter. Find out why. More »
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Science fiction is terrific at helping you imagine how you'd enhance, hack, and upgrade your own body — especially your eyeballs. Humans have been trying to improve on the sense of sight since 1300, when spectacles were invented. What comes next? Take a look at our list of some of the vision enhancement tools that science fiction has offered up. It goes way beyond seeing more clearly or getting a glimpse of the infrared side of the spectrum. More »
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