He’s writing shameless propaganda that makes one side good and noble and pure, and the other greedy and corrupt. He’s cyber-Upton Sinclair.īut like Sinclair, Doctorow isn’t trying to lay out both sides of a complicated issue and let the reader make her own decisions he’s trying to fill people with outrage and get them to storm the Bastille. I also enjoyed his novels Makers and Little Brother, in which he dramatizes the issues he blogs about through technologically-savvy-underdogs-take-on-The-Man narratives.

I love the guy’s blogging, and he’s been a great source for news about SOPA, PIPA, and other scary acronyms.

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.As regular readers of the site know, I have an interest in Hollywood movie mashups. So when I heard that Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow was writing a novel about remix culture and copyright law, I was intrigued.

From the 'New York Times'-bestselling author of 'Little Brother' comes a new tale set in a dystopian near-future Britain of a disaffected brilliant youngster who finds himself standing up to tyranny. But the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds. Parliament is subject to the demands of a few wealthy media conglomerates. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a single stroke. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household's access to the Internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the Net. From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother Cory Doctorow comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny.

Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow