A compelling read
by Mez on Jan.28, 2009, under Personal
Now, It’s probably obvious to anyone reading this blog what my thoughts on Open Source and Licencing are, so I won’t go into that. However, I’ve recently found a new author, who I’m liking a LOT.
His name is Cory Doctorow, and after reading some of his short stories, I thought I’d look into his longer stuff. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a fan of feedbooks.com – and, as an author who’s releasing his works under a Creative Commons licence, his stuff is also there.
I started reading one of his books called “Little Brother” (http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466). I read the intro, and I was hooked.
It’s kind of hard to explain what I mean, so I’d suggest if you’re interested, goto the link above, and click on the PDF link, then read pages 4 through 12 (the introduction/foreword to the book) and you’ll see what I mean.
I’ll probably review the book once I’ve finished it (curled up in bed with my trusty eeePC), but from what I’ve read, and that intro, Cory Doctorow is fast becoming one of my favourite authors.
You can find more about Cory Doctorow, and his works at http://craphound.com/
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July 4th, 2009 on 11:48 am[...] lunch was the first Keynote from Cory Doctorow, who I’ve already mentioned before, is one of my favourite authors. Cory managed to give us a dark perspective on where life in the [...]
January 28th, 2009 on 10:53 am
I’ve just finished this book and it’s probably the most entertaining I’ve ever read. I simply love the idea behind it.
Unfortunately the ending seems a bit lacking but overall it made a great impression.
Also if I had missed your previous entry about feedbooks, I probably wouldn’t even know about Doctorow so thanks
January 28th, 2009 on 11:01 pm
Don’t you guys read xkcd.com? or boingboing.com?
January 28th, 2009 on 11:30 pm
I do read XKCD, but a couple of lines 3 times a week doesn’t really satisfy me, and I like stories with plot
January 29th, 2009 on 1:41 am
The point about xkcd is that Doctorow features in some of the strips.
So, if you’ve read those, Doctorow’s existence would not be news.
See also
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_just_discovered_this
January 29th, 2009 on 3:57 pm
“I, Robot” is his only story i’ve read that was in a compendium, i thought it was great and do plan to read more of his stuff
January 29th, 2009 on 5:25 pm
Ah, ok, so he hasn’t actually featured RECENTLY on xkcd
lol – hence why it didnt click… now I know of the red cape 
April 6th, 2009 on 3:10 am
I really wish I could afford an ebook reader of some sort. I just can’t do with reading ebooks in bed with this 15.4″ laptop; I want something hand held. Looking at the Sony stuff though, they start at around £200, which I don’t have at the moment.
I actually considered printing out Make magazine, but quickly found out that printing it nicely would cost me around £20 an issue… might was well just get the physical subscription for that.