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The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Always Ballot Exciting Good Lots Peers Stuff Very Your

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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Classic Cycle Fiction Part Science Science Fiction Stories Where Writing

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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: All Day Converted Day Doing Games Girl Gold Grinding Like Little Little Girls Making Pressed Repetitive Shirts Shops Sold Spend Story Sweat Tasks Then Which Who Working Ebay

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My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Apart Card Far Feelings He Mixed Politically Pretty Scott Towards

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The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Apart Did Isaac Other Robot Robots Take World

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It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Guy Hard He Likable Like Really

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I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Actually Diversity Good Good Way Individuals Interesting Less Make Misses Narrative Out Realities Really Robust Some Species Think Very Way Well Which Work I Think

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Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Ambitious Books Both Get Know Long Longer Lot More Other People Put Skin Than Think Together Well I Think

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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Bending Books Deliberately Emotionally Just Lot More Other Places Raw Reality Surprising Than Think Weirder Where I Think

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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Critical Find Going Head How Indeed Many Me My Own Novels Other Out Own Really Thing Things Useful You

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: July 17th, 1971

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