Cory Doctorow was kind enough to give me an advanced reader’s copy of his upcoming book Makers, which I read in about three sittings. Granted, I’m a Cory fanboy, and I devour his writings like Pop-Tarts (often simultaneously), but this one is, in my slightly biased opinion, his best yet.
It’s a [...]
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Cory Doctorow’s “Makers”
Eight Days, Eight Nights in Outline Form
The more I blog and mention “the book,” the more questions I get about it. So here’s a summary of the book, in outline form, based on current course and speed. This is completely serious, including my sidebar comments about content and tone. Your mileage may vary, the actual contents may appear smaller [...]
Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem”
Finished Neal Stephenson’s latest multi-pound work Anathem over the holiday break, and I’m still mulling over bits and pieces. It was that good. My enjoyment of all 900+ pages of the book was enhanced by having read Danny Hillis’ Clock of the Long Now and Cory Doctorow’s The Things That Make Me [...]
New Year’s Optimism
In any market environment, you have to be careful not to take current events and extrapolate ad infinitum, assuming that nothing else will change. I distinctly remember being in a meeting of a university student organization with its board, hearing one of the senior board members say “We can safely assume we’ll make no [...]
Separating Ourselves From Our Culture
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Cory Doctorow over a breakfast orders of magnitude more healthy than the last meal we had shared. Our topics
I’ve been fascinated by Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory’s third book, which someone called “the weirdest book I’ve ever read.” It’s not [...]
“Little Brother” Release
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother has been released, and if happen to have anyone in the teenage (oops, Milennial) generation in your house, make this required reading. Doctorow loves to borrow titles and ideas from his favorite writers, turn them on their proverbial listening ear, and remix them with his own view of near-present reality, [...]
Passover as the First Eco Event
We’re deep in the throes of the Jewish holiday of Passover, a celebration of the Exodus from Egypt, of freedom from slavery, and of the rebirth of spring. Capping the narrative of the Israelites’ escape is the chronology of the ten plagues, a series of disasters including rivers of blood, wild beasts, hail, [...]
Locus Magazine Recommended Reading for 2007
Every year Locus magazine, the trade journal for science fiction and fantasy writers, puts out a recommended reading list. I usually end up reading about half of it, sometimes based on re-inforcements from sources like Cory Doctorow (himself a frequent name dropped on the list), BoingBoing or a nod from another author whose [...]
The 2007 List
Presenting the fourth installment in a continuing series dating back to 2004: the 2007 list.
Best Parenting Moment: Son Benjamin’s Bar Mitzvah, celebrated with lots of friends and family. He made us cry, he made his hockey coaches cry (something I hadn’t seen before) and he played a mean guitar solo with [...]
