I wrote Cory for a recent bio and here's what he sent:
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. 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 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 be
published in May, 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.
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, Stikkit, 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 Web
Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders
for 2007.
He is presently working on narrative documentary films with Kirby Dick
(THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED) and Philippe Parreno (ZIDANE), and on a new
young adult novel, FOR THE WIN (about union organizing in video games).
On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy
Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts
all the works of technology and artifice to shame.
I highly recommend this author. He is for "speculative fiction" today what Neal Stephenson was a decade ago, before Neal went on to "greener pastures."
