Posts Tagged ‘Cory Doctorow’

Failures of Imagination (again)

11Jun25

TL;DR I’m once again hearing “who could have imagined?” for things that are very easy to imagine. If you actually stop for a moment and do some imagination, and maybe prep your mind with some science fiction, and perhaps also listen to early career voices. Again? I’ve written on this topic before. Though last time […]


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Review: Cory Doctorow ‘The Bezzle’

31Mar24

Just like Red Team Blues, ‘The Bezzle‘ is a book that I could have easily devoured in one sitting – if I didn’t have a job. As things were, I got through it in a matter of days. Confession – I parked ‘The Lost Cause‘ so I could get back to Marty’s adventures. It was […]


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Review: Cory Doctorow ‘Red Team Blues’

16May23

I’ve read just about everything Cory’s written, and ‘Red Team Blues‘ is amongst his best work. It had the two key qualities of a great read: I’m now really looking forward to ‘The Bezzle’ and ‘Picks and Shovels’, which promise to continue the adventures of Marty Hench. I was gripped from the very beginning, perhaps […]


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The right not to get caught

05May09

For @monadic, who forgot this was happening, and @stephenbonner who asked for a blog post summarising events – a short write up of last Friday’s Open Rights Group event, ‘resisting the all seeing eye’, featuring Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. Things got off to a fairly predictable start for anybody who follows Cory’s and Charlie’s […]


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