Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Steve Burnett <burnett AT pobox.com>]

For anyone with a schedule conflict for Sunday's appearance, Doctorow is 
also appearing in Cary this Saturday afternoon at 4pm.

http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/author-events/Cory-Doctorow/2451993


On Wed, 19 May 2010, paul jones wrote:

> Of interest to at least a few Internetworkers
>
> Who: boingboing.net contributor and author Cory Doctorow
> Where: Fly Leaf Books in Chapel Hill
> When: Sunday May 23 at 1 pm
> Why: Reading from his latest young adult novel, For The Win. And
> celebrating the US paperback release of his first YA book Little
> Brother which is just entering its second week on the National
> Independent Bestseller list!
>
> URL: http://www.flyleafbooks.com/andrew-young-flyleaf-books (ignore URL ref
> to Andrew Young ;->). ibiblio is a co-sponsor of Cory's visit to
> Chapel Hill.
>
> More about Cory:
>
> Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger
> and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog
> Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular
> Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers,
> magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs
> for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil
> liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy,
> standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open
> University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the
> Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern
> California.
>
> His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and
> simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons
> licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that
> increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work.
> He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the
> Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New
> York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, was published in May 2008, and
> his latest short story collection is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE
> FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his
> essays, called CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY,
> COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with an introduction by John
> Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired
> by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE
> HERE AND NOW. His latest novel is MAKERS, out from Tor
> Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009.
>
> LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and
> Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the
> Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young
> adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.
> He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola,
> sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and
> advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the
> MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for
> Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of
> Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.
> In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his
> generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8/9/10
> Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global
> Leaders for 2007.
>
> He will read from FOR THE WIN, a young adult novel about
> macroeconomics, video games and the labor movement.
>
> --
> "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray
>  "And best of all is finding a place to be in the early days of a
> better civilization." Dennis Lee