Doctorow, Cory

A collection of articles, essays, and polemics from the Canadian writer Cory Doctorow that features selections entitled "Microsoft Research DRM Talk," "Downloads Give Amazon Jungle Fever," "Amish for QWERTY," "Warhol is Turning in his Grave," and others.

Alan, the son of a mountain and a washing machine, joins a movement to provide free Internet to Toronto and the world, while trying to help his brothers--Russian nesting dolls--fend off the attacks of another brother who happens to be an evil zombie, and attempting to help his neighbor, a young woman whose boyfriend keeps clipping her wings.

In a dystopian, near-future Britain, Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity.

In a Disney-dominated future, a transhuman teenager engages in high velocity adventures until he meets the "meat girl" of his dreams and is forced to choose between immortality and sex in one of Cory Doctorow's most daring novellas. Also included in this collection is "Creativity vs. Copyright, " a transcript of Doctorow's historic address to the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention, dramatically presenting his controversial case for open-source models not only in information but art as well, and "Outspoken Interview, " in which Doctorow reveals the surprising inspirations for his writing.

Applying their unique inventing talents to the creation of highly technological economic systems, Perry and Lester transform the country only to suffer a bust from which they recover by inventing interactive rides throughout the nation's Wal-Marts.

Jules, barely a century old in a future where death and scarcity have been eliminated, realizes a long-held dream of living at Disney World where he works to preserve the Haunted Mansion and Hall of Presidents, but he discovers all is not well when he wakes in a cloned body to find he has been murdered by a group that wants to turn his beloved attractions into virtual reality experiences.

When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.

Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.