‘The Lost Cause’ by Cory Doctorow: A Book Review
‘The Lost Cause’ is Cory Doctorow’s latest technothriller that pits young free thinkers against an older generation set in its ways.
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‘Red Team Blues’ by Cory Doctorow: A Book Review
With ‘Red Team Blues’ Cory Doctorow delivers an intriguing techno-thriller that educates as much as it enthralls.
Word Wednesday: ‘Attack Surface’ by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is back with another novel in his ‘Little Brother’ universe. ‘Attack Surface’ is like having your eyes opened with a potato peeler.
Geek Links: Cory Doctorow ‘Attack Surface’ Audio Book Kickstarter
Cory Doctorow is bringing his new book ‘Attack Surface’ to Kickstarter in order to release and entirely DRM free audiobook.
GBBP 134: Cory Doctorow
This week, we welcome Cory Doctorow to the show and have one of our meatiest conversations to date. After almost a decade, Doctorow is back with a new adult novel: ‘Walkaway.’
Cory Doctorow Talks About His Graphic Novel, IRL
GeekMom Melanie talks to Cory Doctorow, author of such books as Little Brother, Makers, and Rapture of the Nerds, and co-editor of Boing Boing, about his upcoming graphic novel, IRL (In Real Life).
Review: Homeland by Cory Doctorow
As I said in my review last year of his book Pirate Cinema, a Cory Doctorow YA novel is as much a treatise as a story. His latest, Homeland, is no exception.
Review: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
The “let’s put on a show (in a sewer)” aspect of the underground video scene in Doctorow’s third novel for young adults is fascinating.
Does Cory Doctorow Think The Matrix Got It Wrong?
Cory Doctorow’s new book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow forces readers to ask whether they view new technology as mere change or as human progress.
Cory Doctorow Predicts the Future in Makers
Perry and Lester are two guys living in an abandoned mall outside of Miami. They’re the sort of guys who, to borrow a phrase from the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, can think up six impossible things before breakfast — …
Review: Cory Doctorow’s For the Win Is a Lesson in Global Economics
My boys, 14 and 17, belong to a book club whose tastes run heavily towards science fiction. You could almost call it a mother-son book club, since at least one mom (the facilitator, who studied at RPI) and often one …
Read Cory Doctorow’s Makers For Free
Recently, novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow announced the release of his new novel, Makers — with a price tag of zero. Makers tells the story of a group of hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and reinvent …
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a Manual for our Kids to Save the Future
The fates seemed to decree that I wouldn’t review Little Brother. First of all, it’s shelved under "young adult" — not an appealing category for me. Second, I was unable to contact Tor Teen’s marketing people to secure a comp copy. Finally, it seemed overhyped. Did people pretend to like the book because they liked […]
February 2024 Book Preview
A new month means a new pile of books. Here’s what I’m hoping to read in the next 28 (oh, no – 29!) days. If you want to check out my January 2023 reviews, you can do so, here. Children’s Books Starting my children’s book choices for February is The Fight That Made Us by Sarah Haggar […]
Stack Overflow: 2020 Year-End Reading Reflections
Here’s what some of us managed to read this year, compared to our resolutions at the beginning of the year.
Word Wednesday: ‘The Doors of Eden’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
‘The Doors of Eden’ is a world-crossing, mind-bending science fiction novel with a diverse cast and inclusive theme. It’s also a triumph.
Stack Overflow: 2020 Reading Resolutions
The GeekDads and GeekMoms share our reading resolutions: what we’re planning to read in 2020.
Why You Should Never Use the Same Password on Multiple Sites
It seems like not a month goes by where you don’t hear about another huge data breach from a major company. But it’s so hard to remember all those different passwords! And what’s the harm, really?
Who Wouldn’t Want Fantasyland in Their Basement?
This looks absolutely gorgeous, and would be simply magical for any kids growing up with it.
Tales From the Paper Mountain: Volume 4
The long-time-coming 4th volume of the Tales From the Paper Mountain, includes alternate history, time travel, demons, and a little bit of romance.
Stack Overflow: Tillie Walden Recommends 5 YA Graphic Novels
Today’s Stack Overflow is curated by Tillie Walden, whose first graphic novel comes out this fall. She shares 5 of her favorite YA graphic novels.
JoCo Cruise 2018 Guest Lineup Announced
Join in the geekiest adventure on the high seas by booking your trip on the JoCo Cruise 2018.
Celebrating ‘Star Wars’ 40th Anniversary – Tabletop Games
Games are to geeks like air is to humans and Star Wars games are no exception. Below is a small sampling of the Star Wars related tabletop games we enjoy and why.
A Homemade ‘Star Wars’ RPG for My Toddler
I recently drew up some rules for a homebrew RPG game I could play with my three-year-old son using his ‘Star Wars: Galactic Heroes’ toys as a way to introduce him to tabletop role-playing games.
Stack Overflow: Game On
Insert quarter, press start! Today’s Stack Overflow is all about videogames—they’ve long since left behind their humble beginnings and are now a multi-billion dollar industry with opening weekends that leave movies in the dust. So it’s no wonder they inspire a lot of writing.
Stack Overflow: Careful, You Might Learn Something (Part 1)
Continuing on my not-a-year-end-list series… most of the books I read are fiction, whether they’re comics, adult fiction, picture books, stories I’m reading to my kids. I always have big plans to read more non-fiction, but it just doesn’t happen quite as much. Still, there are a lot of books that teach you something, and you can learn from fiction and non-fiction. With that in mind, I’ve got a lot of cool books that taught us something or made us think about a topic in a new way.
Chatting with Jen Wang, In Real Life
GeekMom Melanie had the opportunity to chat with artist Jen Wang about her work on the new graphic novel, IRL (In Real Life).
Between the Bookends at GeekMom
This month’s Between the Bookends covers comical cats, Lemony Snicket causing despondency yet again, and a story of ordinary hardship in World War I.
Between the Bookends at GeekMom
This month the GeekMoms have read an interesting collection of books covering math (from The Simpson’s, even), geometry, essays, and garbage.
Ten Questions with Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Mur Lafferty
The Campbell Award for Best New Writer is given annually to one author who has published his or her first professional work within the past two years.