Why doesn’t my brain hurt? - mutterings about Cory Doctorow’s latest collection

After reading the last collection, A Place so Foreign…, my brain hurt. Why? Great ideas but (sort of like Charles Stross) I felt like an overrun buffer. I loved his last novel but this collection is certainly Cory at his best. The opening story, Print Crimes, must be read by everybody - yes, everybody. We [...]

Asimov short story

I’ve literally just seen this posted at Digg.com - Asimov’s favourite short story. Coincidentally, my friend Steve lent me his cassette tape of Childhood’s End which I’m listening to on the way to work. Having just read Cory Doctorow’s new collection, its strange to listen to tales of Uplift via technology and how little things [...]