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more about #corydoctorow cylon_conspiracy: It was great to hear about io9 in a larger context... good interview. more » CJames745: I somehow managed to find this podcast before I came here! Lot's of good discussion, and I was glad to see that they talked with Escape Pod too. more » ThisDudeRufus: I was hoping it would be on the radio so I could get my irony fix for the day. more » Klebert L. Hall: They should have called it Wank Bank. Nice, memorable trademark, that tells you everything about the product. -Kle. more » bookwench: I shall believe it when I get goods and services from it. more » EndangeredRed: See: Scott Westerfeld's Extras. Reputation economy. more » Jack_Burton: Julia Alison has become Bernie Madoff? more » EdificeComplex: " Try increasing your reputation by doing or saying things that matter to others." Screw thinking for yourself. You must conform to what other people... more » spocko: The business plan on how to monetize this must be great. "The people who google themselves 30 times a day are suckers for vanity press, diet pills and... more » Ruthless, If you let me: No go for me until they start paying me for my io9 (and sister site) comments. more » ManchuCandidate: Oh boy a famewhore bank! It's just a bullshit metric for the self involved (who luvs them metrics) to masturbate over. more » dulceserenidad: The packed library and adoring children at the Ray Bradbury signing I attended say this isn't true. more » TheGreenRanger: Where exactly do all these authors get their millions of dollars from? Strange... I can't really envision a world without literature, especially not i... more » Brian Fowler: Figures. As soon as I start to be a writer, the novel's o it's way out. #philiproth more » Merlin2008: To the commenters on this board, as a true literary geek, let me just say, 'Thank you.' #philiproth more » Inkymonkey: Except that YA sales are way up, and have been rising for some time. Maybe people just don't want to read PHILLIP EFFING ROTH* anymore, hmm? To be fa... more » jeremydeananderson003: Oh give me a break. If television hasn't wiped out the novel yet, it isn't gonna. It's like if I claimed that in 25 years, the microwave will have com... more » YouAreNumber6: I too am on the agreement side. The shortstory used to be a hugely popular medium, now it's practically dead. Poetry has seen better days. I don't ... more » gorehound: I read everyday and own around 1200 books and original pulp magazines. and not one of my boooks is an ebook nor will it ever be an ebook. #philiproth more » Ajh: Went and read the article. Honestly I have no idea who Philip Roth is and a search reveals I have no idea what any of his books are about. Judging f... more » -
#futurism
How Is Media Technology Changing Science Fiction?
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 » -
#whuffiebank
You're Rich! In Reputation, Anyway. The Whuffie Bank Is Here At Last.
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 » -
#books
Are the Novel's Days Numbered?
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 » -
#interview
Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel, Including His Own
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.
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#hugoawards
Hugos 2009: The Fashion, The Fervor And The Suspense!
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 » -
#awards
How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?
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 » -
#afternoonreading
How To Survive The Next Depression, With Cory Doctorow
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 » -
#littlebrother
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother Is The Best Libertarian SF Book Of 2009
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. -
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#littlebrother
It's Like The Outsiders, Only With xBoxes And Culture-Jamming
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? -
#bookreview
Doctorow's Little Brother Shows The Genesis Of Dystopia
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 » -
#forgreatjustice
Cory Doctorow Headlines Geek Reading to Support EFF This Monday in San Francisco
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 » -
#triviagasm
Do Androids Pray to Electric Gods?
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.
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