Cory DoctorowSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, "For the Win," is a young adult book about video-games, labor politics and economics. His New York Times Bestseller "Little Brother" was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present." In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future" (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow), and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called "Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now." His latest adult novel is" Makers," published by Tor Books/HarperCollins UK in October, 2009.

Contact a Speaker Booking Agent to inquire about Cory Doctorow speaker booking, speaking fee details, and availability.