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I want to read some Cory Doctorow. Where should I start? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by postscarce@kbin.social to c/books@kbin.social

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I recently read his article about enshittification and watched an interview where he talks about "chokepoint capitalism".

I also really like scifi and from what I've heard he writes scifi. What scifi book(s) of his should I start with if I like these political / economic views of his?

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[–] JollyRoberts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@postscarce

Little Brother is amazing!

He also has a lot of lectures and talks on youtube.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edward Snowden wrote the intro to the newer edition of Little Brother & Homeland.
Nice. :)

[–] JollyRoberts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@postscarce indeed.

He is also active on mastodon: https://mamot.fr/@doctorow

[–] Narte@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed Walkaway as an intro to Doctorow.

It was a fun exploration of the politics and economic realities of a possible near future where we never really got a firm grip on runaway capitalism. Lots of fun concepts surrounding intellectual property in a post-scarcity world.

[–] anamuk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

His Latest Red Team BLues is a pretty good read, and its the start of a new set of books, so not a bad starting point

[–] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I've liked all of his books thus far. His older stuff like Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Pirate Cinema, and Makers are what I started out reading. Really, start anywhere. He's also got his blog, Pluralistic, that he writes on just about daily. I get the RSS feed sent to my work email to read when we have downtime.

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