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Tag: Cory Doctorow

GBBP 134: Cory Doctorow

May 30, 2017Jamie Greene2

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

May 2, 2016May 4, 2020Will James8

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

October 11, 2014Melanie Meadors

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

August 12, 2013December 13, 2017Michael Harrison

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

London’s Mini Maker Faire Was a Big Hit!

July 11, 2013Natalie Zaman

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

May 3, 2013Ruth Suehle

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!

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Review: Homeland by Cory Doctorow

February 4, 2013December 13, 2017Admin

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.

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Review: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow

December 17, 2012December 13, 2017Admin

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.

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Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Already Exists!

September 29, 2012Erik Wecks

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?

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Does Cory Doctorow Think The Matrix Got It Wrong?

May 8, 2012Erik Wecks

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.

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Cory Doctorow Predicts the Future in Makers

May 1, 2011Jonathan H. Liu

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 — …

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Walking With Dinosaurs, Down Under

April 23, 2011Admin

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 …

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Review: Cory Doctorow’s For the Win Is a Lesson in Global Economics

July 9, 2010December 13, 2017Admin

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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