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Podcast Description
Short-stories in progress by an award-winning science fiction writer, read aloud in small regular chunks
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The problem with nerd politics | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, The problem with nerd politics: Since the earliest days of the information wars, people who care about freedom and technology have struggled with two ideological traps: nerd determinism and nerd fatalism. Both | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers: At the end of April, Tor Books, the world's largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Prose By Any Other Name | Here's a podcast of my last Locus column, A Prose By Any Other Name: Back in 2005, I did something weird. I decided that I would embark on a project to write short stories with the same (or similar) titles to famous science fiction books and stories. My i | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society? | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?: Late in March, I started to get a steady stream of emails from concerned readers: did you see that the Internet Society has appointed the former chief techn | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn't just about passwords: Facebook has threatened to sue companies that force their employees to reveal their Facebook login details. As laudable as this is, I worry t | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Whip to Beat Us With | Here's a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, A Whip to Beat Us With: Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and solo. The books that were re-priced by Amazon were his solo titles—unagented, and unrepresented by a maj | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us: The first time I ever heard someone declare the death of copyright, it wasn't a dreadlocked GNU/Linux hacker or a cyberpunk in mirror s | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Censorship is inseparable from surveillance | Here's a podcast of my last Guardian column, Censorship is inseparable from surveillance: There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Inside the Box? | Here's a podcast of my last Locus column, What's Inside the Box?: The answer to this that most of the experts I speak to come up with is this: The owner (or user) of a device should be able to know (or control) which software is running on her devices. Th | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with WNIJ Chicago | Here's a short interview I did last week in Chicago with WNIJ, an NPR affiliate. MP3 link | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Lysenkoism | Here's a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, Digital Lysenkoism : Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked abou | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edited Spark interview about the “coming war on general purpose computation” | I did an interview last week with the CBC Radio show The Spark (I podcasted the complete interview when they posted it); now they've put up the edited episode. MP3 link | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with CBC’s Spark on the coming war on general-purpose computation | I did a quick interview with the CBC Radio programme "The Spark" last week from my office in London, talking about my idea of "the upcoming war on general purpose computing." They've just posted the unedited audio in advance of airing a shorter excerpt. M | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martian Chronicles, part two | The StarShipSofa podcast has the second installment of Jeff Lane's reading of my YA novella The Martian Chronicles (here's part one). Lane does a great job with the reading. MP3 link. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future | Here's a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future: Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Ar | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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“Martian Chronicles” reading | The Starship Sofa podcast has produced an excellent reading of my novella "The Martian Chronicles," which was originally published in Jonathan Strahan's YA anthology Life on Mars. The reading is by jeff Lane, who's really talented. Here's the MP3 (the rea | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Coming War on General Purpose Computation | Here's a transcript of my keynote at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin over Christmas week, "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation." Here're the relevant links: * Video * Transcript (Joshua Wise) * German translation (Christian Wöh | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Urgent Christmas Message | No reading this time -- I'm too hard at work on finishing the sequel to Little Brother -- but a Christmas wish from me to you: fight SOPA and save the Internet before the year is out! Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview on Command Line about Context | This week on The Command Line podcast, a recording of a live chat between host Thomas Gideon and myself at the New America Foundation, discussing (among other things), my new essay collection Context. (MP3) | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Another Place, Another Time | Here's a reading of my story "Another Place, Another Time," which was my contribution to The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, a companion volume to Chris Van Allsburg's classic Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a collection of illustrations and titles from a lost | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
This guy is too busy to write
I am so glad I'm done with this story (Human Readable), so I don't have to listen to Cory's swallowing sounds, or his whimpering attempts at conveying passion and emotion, or his laundry list of how busy and important and popular he is ("news") ever again. Three times I've been sucked into one of these stories and suffered through the painful presentation, only to be left with... nothing at all. No feelings, no ideas. Maybe you get what you pay for. A serious author, someone like Neal Stephenson, doesn't have time to post blog entries every day and give hundreds of speeches and record podcasts and meet with associates all over the world and then brag about it on the internet. He focuses on his writing, and the difference really shows. Now if one wanted to, a good writer could also work on becoming a good reader of his own work, but I don't think Cory has the time to give it any thought or effort. (I tried to post this comment at his website, but, hilariously, ironically, for someone so keen on internet freedom, my post was refused due to "questionable content"!!!)
Infinitely readable, just wish someone else would read them
Cory's stories are quite readable and very enjoyable. The podcasts, however, are quite disappointing. This is a prime example of why an author should not read their own work. The misreads, pauses, gulping, drinking and general clatter in the background are distracting and take away from the enjoyment of the story.
A great podcast!
Cory Doctorow is my favorite author and I was really excited by this podcast. I have all of his books, but there were still a lot of his short stories I haven't read. This podcast gives me a chance to listen to them all during times when I wouldn't be able to read-like in the car or while walking. I really admire the fact that Cory makes his books so easily accessible with Creative Commons. Even though I could go and get the text online for free, I enjoy listening to him reading the stories and his little talks at the beginning of each podcast.
- Free
- Category: Literature
- Language: English
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