It creates an all-too-real vision of the dystopian possibilities we are headed for - but it’s also a celebration of the human impulse to break the chains of corporate control. He is editor of the blog Craphound, co-editor of the blog Boing-Boing, has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and also finds time to write speculative fiction that is both entertaining and thought-provoking.ĭoctorow’s latest fiction foray is Radicalized, a collection of four novellas set in the near future that aims a sharply-honed lance of satire at today’s political and social inequalities. Rate us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts!Ĭory Doctorow is one of the globe’s leading thinkers about the internet and the digital commons. Writer’s Voice - in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004.

Then we re-air an edited version of our 2010 interview with Doctorow about his novel, Makers, which is about a movement of open source tech creators and their battle with the Disney Corporation. It brings together four speculative fiction novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today - and what America could be in the very near future. First, we talk with him about his terrific new book, Radicalized. We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow.

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