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Life and career
Cory Efram Doctorow was born in
Doctorow is a friend of
Cory Doctorow has stated both that he is not related to the American novelist E. L. Doctorow,[12] and that he may be a third cousin once removed of the novelist.[13] Thomas Rankin in Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works (2007) describes Doctorow as "a distant cousin of author E.L. Doctorow".[14]
In June 1999, Doctorow co-founded the

Doctorow later relocated to
In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.[20] He was a student in the program during 1993–94, but left without completing a thesis. Doctorow was also a visiting professor at the Open University in the United Kingdom from September 2009 to August 2010.[20] In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University.[21]
Doctorow married
In 2015, Doctorow decided to leave London and move to Los Angeles, expressing disappointment at London's "death" after Britain's choice of Conservative government; he stated at the time, "London is a city whose two priorities are being a playground for corrupt global elites who turn neighbourhoods into soulless collections of empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, and encouraging the feckless criminality of the finance industry. These two facts are not unrelated."[25] He rejoined the EFF in January 2015 to campaign for the eradication of digital rights management (DRM).[26]
Doctorow left Boing Boing in January 2020, and soon started a solo blogging project titled Pluralistic.[27] The circumstances surrounding Doctorow's exit from the website were unclear at the time, although Doctorow acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of Boing Boing.[27][28] Given the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and Boing Boing, MetaFilter described this news as "the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up" for the blog world.[28] Doctorow's exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020.[29]
Other work, activism, and fellowships
Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the
In 2007, together with Austrian art group monochrom, he initiated the Instant Blitz Copy Fight project, which asks people from all over the world to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.[30][31]
On 31 October 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning
As a user of the
Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the July 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference.[34] He also presented on enshittification at the 2024 conference, HOPE XV.[35]
He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[36]
Fiction

Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old, and sold several stories, followed by publication of the story "Craphound" in 1998.[9]
Down and Out... was nominated for a Nebula Award,[39] and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2004.[40] A semi-sequel short story named Truncat was published on Salon.com in August 2003.[41]
His novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, published in June 2005, was chosen to launch the Sci-Fi Channel's book club, Sci-Fi Essentials (now defunct).
Doctorow's other novels have been released with Creative Commons licences that allow derived works and prohibit commercial usage, and he has used the model of making digital versions available, without charge, at the same time that print versions are published.
His

Doctorow released the bestselling novel
His novel
Doctorow released another
Doctorow's short-story collection With a Little Help was released in printed format on 3 May 2011. It is a project to demonstrate the profitability of Doctorow's method of releasing his books in print and subsequently for free under Creative Commons.[50][51]
In September 2012, Doctorow released The Rapture of the Nerds, a novel written in collaboration with Charles Stross.[52]
Doctorow's
In February 2013, Doctorow released
His novel Walkaway was released in 2017.[55]
In March 2019, Doctorow released Radicalized, a collection of four self-contained science-fiction novellas dealing with how life in America could be in the near future.[56] The book was selected for the 2020 edition of Canada Reads, in which it was defended by Akil Augustine.[57]
Attack Surface, a standalone adult novel set in the "Little Brother" universe, was released on 13 October 2020.[58][59]
His novel called Red Team Blues, a financial thriller about cybersecurity, was released in April 2023. It features a character named Martin Hench.[60]
Standalone hopepunk novel The Lost Cause, set in 2050s California about mitigating and surviving climate change impacts amidst the legacy of contemporary political divisions, was published in November 2023.[61]
A second novel featuring forensic accountant Martin Hench was published in February 2024: The Bezzle is centered around the financial (mis-)management of privately owned prisons.[62]
A third Martin Hench novel, Picks and Shovels, was published by Tor Books in February, 2025: the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.[63]
Nonfiction and other writings
Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book,
In 2004, he wrote an essay on Wikipedia included in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, comparing Internet attempts at Hitchhiker's Guide-type resources, including a discussion of the Wikipedia article about himself.[66] Doctorow contributed the foreword to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. He also was a contributing writer to the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.[67]
He popularised the term "
His essay "You Can't Own Knowledge" is included in the Freesouls book project.[70]
He is the originator of Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit."[71][72][73][74][75]
Writing in The Guardian in 2022, Doctorow listed the many problems confronting Facebook and suggested that its future would be increasingly fraught.[76]
Opinions

Intellectual property
Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalised to allow for free sharing of all digital media. He has also advocated
Doctorow is an opponent of digital rights management and claims that it limits the free sharing of digital media and frequently causes problems for legitimate users (including registration problems that lock users out of their own purchases and prevent them from being able to move their media to other devices).[79]
He was a keynote speaker at the 2014 international conference CopyCamp in Warsaw, Poland[80] with the presentation "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free."[81]
Enshittification
In criticising the decay in usefulness of online platforms, Doctorow in 2022 coined the neologism enshittification,[82] (which he calls enpoopification on public airwaves[83]) which he defines as a degradation of an online environment caused by greed:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.[84]
The word gained traction in 2023, where it was used by a variety of sources in reference to several major platforms discontinuing free features in order to further their monetization or taking other actions that were seen to degrade functionality.[85] In its annual vote, the American Dialect Society designated enshittification as 2023's Word of the Year.[86][87]
In November 2024, the Australian Macquarie Dictionary selected it as its word of the year, defining it as follows:[88]
The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.
Awards
- 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[89]
- 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
- 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
- 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
- 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[90]
For Little Brother
- 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[91]
- 2009 Prometheus Award[46]
- 2009 Sunburst Award[47]
- 2009 White Pine Award[92]
- 2018 Inkpot Award[93]
- For Pirate Cinema
- 2013 Prometheus Award[46]
For Homeland
- 2014 Prometheus Award[46]
Selected bibliography
In chronological sequence, unless otherwise indicated
Fiction
Novels
- ISBN 0-7653-0436-8.
- ISBN 0-7653-0759-6.
- ISBN 0-7653-1278-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-1279-2.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-2216-6.
- The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, 2011, ISBN 978-1-6048-6404-5
- ISBN 978-0-765-32910-3. (with Charles Stross)
- ISBN 978-0-7653-2908-0.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-9276-3.
- ISBN 978-1-0359-0223-1.
Little Brother Universe
- ISBN 978-0-7653-1985-2.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-3369-8.
- ISBN 978-1-8389-3996-0.
Martin Hench series
- ISBN 978-1-8045-4774-8.
- The Bezzle. Tor Books. 2024. ISBN 978-1250865878.
- Picks and Shovels. Tor Books. 2025. ISBN 9781250865908.
Graphic novels
- In Real Life. Illustrated by ISBN 978-1596436589.
- Poesy the Monster Slayer. Illustrated by ISBN 978-1626723627.
Collections
- ISBN 978-1-5685-8286-3
- ISBN 978-1560259817.
- ISBN 9780557943050.
- Other instance: With a little help. CreateSpace. 2011. ISBN 9781456576349.
- Other instance: With a little help. CreateSpace. 2011.
- ISBN 978-1-2502-2858-1.
Short fiction
Title | Year | First published in | Reprinted in |
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Craphound | 1998 | Science Fiction Age, March 1998[94] |
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The Super Man and the Bugout | 1998 | DailyLit[95] | |
Return to Pleasure Island | 2000 | Realms of Fantasy | Helgadottir, Margrét, ed. (2019). American Monsters Part 2. Fox Spirit Books. ISBN 978-1910462294 .
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0wnz0red | 2002 | ? | ISBN 1568582862 .
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Truncat[96] | 2002 | ? | The Bakka anthology. Bakka Books. 2002. ISBN 0973150831 .
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I, Row-Boat | 2006 | Flurb: a webzine of astonishing tales 1 (Fall 2006) | ISBN 978-1560259817 .
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Scroogled | 2007 | Radar (Sep 2007) | ISBN 9780557943050 .
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The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away | 2008 | Tor.com | |
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | 2008 | ?? | ISBN 9781597801058 .
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True names (with Benjamin Rosenbaum) | 2008 | Anders, Lou, ed. (2008). Fast forward 2. Pyr. ISBN 9781591026921 .
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Kessel, John; Kelly, James Patrick, eds. (2012). Digital rapture: the singularity anthology. Tachyon. ISBN 9781616960704 .
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Chicken Little | 2009 | ISBN 9780557943050 .
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Hull, Elizabeth Anne, ed. (2011). Gateways. Tor. ISBN 9780765326621 .
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There's a great big beautiful tomorrow / Now is the best time of your life | 2010 | Doctorow, C. (2010). Strahan, Jonathan (ed.). Godlike machines. Science Fiction Book Club. ISBN 9781616647599 .
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Doctorow, C. (2011). The great big beautiful tomorrow. PM Press. ISBN 9781604864045 .
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Clockwork Fagin | 2011 | Grant, Gavin J. and Link, Kelly, eds. (2011). Steampunk! Candlewick Press. ISBN 9780763660451
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Another Time, Another Place | 2011 | Van Allsburg (2011). The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales ISBN 0547548109
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Lawful interception | 2013 | TOR.COM | |
The Man Who Sold The Moon | 2014 | Boing Boing | |
Car Wars | 2016 | Deakin University[97] | |
Party Discipline | 2017 | Tor.com | |
The Canadian Miracle | 2023 | Reactor Magazine | |
Spill | 2024 | Reactor Magazine | |
Vigilant | 2024 | Reactor Magazine |
Non-fiction
- Doctorow, Cory; Schroeder, Karl (2000). ISBN 0028639189.
- Doctorow, Cory; et al. (2002). Essential blogging. O'Reilly. ISBN 0596003889.
- Doctorow, Cory (1 February 2004). Ebooks : neither E, nor books. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 5 December 2014. Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004.
- — (2005). "Wikipedia : a genuine H2G2, minus the editors". In Yeffeth, Glenn (ed.). The anthology at the end of the universe : leading science fiction authors on Douglas Adams' The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. BenBella. ISBN 9781932100563.
- — (2008). Content : selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future. Tachyon. ISBN 9781892391810.
- — (2010). "You can't own knowledge". Freesouls. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- — (January 2010). "Close enough for rock 'n' roll". Locus (588): 29.
- — (2011). Context : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st Century. Tachyon. ISBN 9781616960483.
- — (2014). ISBN 9781940450285.
- — (2 September 2017). "Demon-Haunted World". Locus Online.
- — (21 January 2021). How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Medium Editions. ISBN 9781736205907.
- Giblin, Rebecca; Doctorow, Cory (27 September 2022). ISBN 978-080700706-8.
- The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (2023)
Anthology
- Tesseracts Eleven with Holly Phillips (2007)
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Graduation certificate from Mom and Dad. I finally graduated from high school (after 7 years!) in 1991. My parents were so relieved they made me this (which my Mom just found while doing some lock-in organizing and sent to me). Love their optimism! I dropped out of four universities after this and never got a degree.
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- ^ "White Pine Award list of winners". Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- ^ "Inkpot Award". 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Craphound". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ "The Super Man and the Bugout". www.goodreads.com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ A quasi-sequel to Down and out in the Magic Kingdom.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (23 November 2016). "Car Wars: a dystopian science fiction story about the nightmare of self-driving cars". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
Further reading
- Doctorow, C. (2008). "Big data: Welcome to the petacentre". Nature. 455 (7209): 16–21. PMID 18769411.
- S2CID 4408297.
External links
- Cory Doctorow – official site
- Pluralistic, daily links by Cory Doctorow
- Works by Cory Doctorow at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Cory Doctorow at the Internet Archive
- Cory Doctorow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Cory Doctorow at IMDb
- Cory Doctorow on the Muck Rack journalist listing site
- Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, Cory Doctorow presentation at the CopyCamp 2014 conference
Interviews
- 2019 interview with Doctorow at Cyberpunks.com
- 2020 interview with DoctorowArchived 29 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine by Johannes Grenzfurthner in The Free Lunch magazine
- 2022 interview with Doctorow at sfss.space