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.’
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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.
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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).
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Second Issue of Gygax Magazine Hits Shelves This Week
Gygax Magazine, a tribute to the gaming magazines of yore (think Dragon and White Dwarf, circa 1985), releases its second issue this week with a stunning cover by fantasy artist extraordinaire Jeff Easley.
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London’s Mini Maker Faire Was a Big Hit!
London had its first (mini) Maker Faire last weekend in Elephant & Castle, and it gets a big thumbs up from my daughter and me!
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Book Discounts For Day Against DRM
Today is the seventh annual International Day Against DRM (Digital Rights Management). Fight against DRM, and get some discounts on great books in the process!
Continue ReadingReview: 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.
Continue ReadingReview: 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.
Continue ReadingAvogadro Corp: The Singularity Already Exists!
In Avogadro Corp., William Hertling makes a compelling case for just exactly how an AI might come to exist. Did it just edit this sentence?
Continue ReadingDoes 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.
Continue ReadingCory 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 — …
Continue ReadingWalking With Dinosaurs, Down Under
As Randall Munroe has so eloquently pointed out, our children need to understand the reality of dinosaurs. Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow uncovered a video on YouTube of Australian school children being terrorized by a life-size dinosaur puppet. As …
Continue ReadingReview: 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 …
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