Cory Doctorow
b. 1971, based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest novels are Picks and Shovels (2025) and The Bezzle (2024) — followups to Red Team Blues (2023) — and The Lost Cause (2023), a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amid the climate emergency. His most recent non-fiction book is The Internet Con: How to Sieze the Means of Computation (2023), a Big Tech disassembly manual. He is the author of the international young adult “Little Brother” series. He is also the author with Rebecca Giblin of Chokepoint Capitalism (2022), about creative labor markets and monopoly; How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (2020), non-fiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of Radicalized (2019) and Walkaway (2017), science fiction for adults, a young adult graphic novel called In Real Life (2014); and other young adult novels like Pirate Cinema (2012). His first picture book was Poesy the Monster Slayer (2020).
Doctorow maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net . He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. York University (Canada) made him an Honorary Doctor of Laws; and the (UK) made him an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science.
