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Cory Doctorow's Little Brother becomes a must-see stage play

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:20:00 PST

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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 »

Where To Start With Young Adult Science Fiction

Sarah Hope Williams — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:00:00 PDT

Where's the best place to start your kids with reading Science Fiction? Here's a booklist of some of the best Sci-Fi for the discerning young adult, because it's never too early to teach them about the dangers of dystopian societies. More »

How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:30:00 PDT

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 »

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother Is The Best Libertarian SF Book Of 2009

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:00:00 PDT

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 »

It's Like The Outsiders, Only With xBoxes And Culture-Jamming

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:00:00 PDT

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 »

Doctorow's Little Brother Shows The Genesis Of Dystopia

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:31:15 PDT

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 »

Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:00 PST

"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 »