Cory Doctorow
8pm, Wednesday 5th Week (16th February 2005)
The Arts Room, Staircase 7,
Trinity College
(map), Oxford.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian techno-sage who, amongst other things, writes SF.
He has written two novels
(Down And
Out In The Magic Kingdom,
and Eastern
Standard Tribe) and one short story collection (A Place So Foreign and Eight
More). Notably, as well as a standard dead tree edition, he also released both
novels and most of the short stories free online under a creative commons
license. He has also been involved in several collaborations
with Charlie
Stross, the most recent example of
which - Unwirer -
was written as alternate
posts in a Web Log. His blog and
book downloads can be found on his web site.
To comment on, or discuss, Cory Doctorow or his talk, please
contribute to
the OUSFG Cory Doctorow Wiki page.
Also, in a fit of self-referentiality,
here is his blog entry announcing his talk.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/cory-doctorow-05ht.html last
modified 16th February 2005 by Tim Adye, <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>