The Internet Con

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book RED TEAM BLUES, a technothriller about finance crime; his latest nonfiction book is CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly. He is the author of the international young adult LITTLE BROTHER series. He is also the author HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE; and other young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA. His first picture book was POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER (Aug 2020). His next novel is THE LOST CAUSE (November 2023). His next nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON (September 2023), a nonfiction book from Verso about monopoly and radical interoperability. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement.