Well now that the semester is almost done, I think it’s high time I start writing about it. Which is not my intention right now. Right now I’m writing to say that I will be spending time over our month and half Christmas vacation reflecting and writing. Much of it here. And also you know to plug my favorite authors.
Shout out for Cory Doctorow, which if you’re reading this as it’s a blog you’ve probably already heard of him. Nonetheless because there are people who haven’t I’m informing you that it’s high time you read one of his works be they short stories or novels. Cory Doctorow rose in prominence in part because he’s brilliant, and in part because he was the first author to publish a novel online using the Creative Commons license, a practice that has since been repeated by numerous other authors. This means that his first novel “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” and all subsequent works can be found online at his website.
Cory Doctorow is also one of the four editors of the blog Boing Boing. His work primarily entails near future sci-fi that takes current cultural trends and looks at their consequences. It’s all very well imagined, creative, and possesses that all too rare didactic ability to get the reader to ask the right questions.
