New Releases by Cory Doctorow

Estamos viviendo el Enmierdoceno, la Gran Enmierdación, una época en la que los servicios que nos importan se están convirtiendo en enormes montones de mierda. Cuando Cory Doctorow acuñó el término enshittification (enmierdación), estaba haciendo un diagnóstico sobre el estado del mundo digital y cómo afecta a nuestras vidas. Como palabra, captura la esencia de un mundo que empeora. Como idea, explica por qué está empeorando, de quién es la culpa y qué hacer con la misoginia, el conspiracionismo, la vigilancia, la manipulación y el fraude que se han apoderado de Internet. La enmierdación no es un fallo, es una técnica que han adoptado todas las plataformas, desde X hasta TikTok, pasando por Amazon y Apple: primero atraen a los usuarios a sus plataformas, luego atraen a las empresas que podrían beneficiarse de este público recién formado y, al final, exprimen a ambos para su propio beneficio. Los gigantes tecnológicos atraen a los usuarios con la comodidad y luego degradan sus servicios con el tiempo, agotando los beneficios a costa de la experiencia del usuario. En Mierdificación, Doctorow expone los síntomas, el diagnóstico y la cura para estas plataformas en metástasis.

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money--but for now he''s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted. When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity Computing to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who''ve founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he''s on the wrong side. Marty ditches the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women found themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Fidelity Computing and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers and driving Fidelity Computing out of business. But this optimistic startup, fueled by young love and California-style burritos, has no idea the depth of the evil they''re seeking to unroot or the risks they run. In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity "An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back." –Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL "A brilliant barn burner of a book." –Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it''s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships. We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.

Das Rote Team greift an, das Blaue Team verteidigt – so sind die Regeln in der Cyber-Security. Marty Hench ist ein alter Veteran des Silicon Valley, und er war schon immer Team Rot. Als IT-Experte und Ermittler hat er Konzerne, Oligarchen und Drogenkartelle verfolgt. Sein neuester Auftrag: gestohlene Security-Keys zurückholen, die ein Milliardenvermögen in Crypto-Währung wert sind. Aber dann dreht sich der Spieß um, Marty wird vom Jäger zum Gejagten – und nichts hasst er mehr, als im Blauen Team spielen zu müssen. Doch diesmal ist es ein tödliches Spiel ...

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn''t controversial. It''s just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks. But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam. And they''re your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they''re not going anywhere. And they’re armed to the teeth. The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they''re often the elders that we love? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The fifteenth anniversary of the Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast Escape Pod, featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers. Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world, at the forefront of a new fiction revolution. This anthology gathers together fifteen stories, including new and exclusive work from writers such as from Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, Mary Robinette Kowal, T. Kingfisher and more. From editors Mur Laffterty and S.B. Divya comes the science fiction collection of the year, bringing together bestselling authors in celebration of the publishing phenomenon that is, Escape Pod.

Ready for more Chaos and Cosmos? From space pirates to undead dragons, Tor and Tor.com Publishing are proud to present excerpts of some of 2020’s most wild and wondrous new sci-fi and fantasy. Includes free sample ebook chapters from: The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons #3), by Jenn Lyons Master of Poisons, by Andrea Hairston To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini Burning Roses, by S. L. Huang Attack Surface (A Little Brother Story), by Cory Doctorow NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Invisible Life of addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America''s present and future within one book Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. In Model Minority, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. Radicalized is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife''s terminal cancer. The fourth story, Masque of the Red Death, harkens back to Doctorow''s Walkaway, taking on issues of survivalism versus community.

If you want a better future tomorrow, you''re going to have to fight for it today. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near - all too near - future. ''Unauthorized Bread'' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman''s perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster. In ''Model Minority'' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. ''Radicalized'' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system. The final story, ''The Masque of the Red Death'', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society.

Dans un monde ravagé par les Guerres Mécas et la pollution, Jimmy et son père, tous deux des humains augmentés, vivent à Détroit avec leur meute de robots, leurs armures mécaniques, et leur collection de reliques de l''ancien temps. La pièce maîtresse de cette dernière est le Carrousel du Progrès de Walt Disney, une attraction du vingtième siècle qui narre l''avancée technologique au sein d''une famille américaine moyenne, dont la musique nous promet de beaux et grands lendemains à venir. Mais le sont-ils vraiment ? Car après une attaque de leur foyer dont Jimmy réussit à s''échapper in extremis, celui-ci décide de se mettre en quête d''un traitement contre le mal qui le ronge : celui de ne pas pouvoir vieillir. Dans ce court roman, il est tout aussi question du temps qui passe, du transhumanisme que d''écologie. Il est suivi d''un texte "La Créativité us Copyright", et d''un entretien avec l''auteur réalisé par Terry Bisson.

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Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city''s dumpsters. But Alan''s past won''t leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

Aqui se plantea un curioso experimento social cuando el mundo se derrumba -la civilizaci�n occidental, en realidad- y los administradores de sistemas, los inform�ticos que cuidan que internet no se cierre, siguen en la brecha para mantener la Red como �ltimo reducto civilizado.

A collection of exciting new stories from one of the young guns of modern science fiction encompasses a wide range of topics from pop culture to utopian future visions, nerd pride, and trash, in such works as Craphound, Shadow of the Mothaship, and Return to Pleasure Island. Craphound A Place So Foreign Return to Pleasure Island Shadow of the Mothaship Home Again, Home Again The Super Man and the Bugout Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old and sold several stories followed by the publication of his story Craphound in 1998.

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Craphound had wicked yard-sale karma, for a rotten, filthy alien bastard. He was too good at panning out the single grain of gold in a raging river of uselessness for me not to like him -- respect him, anyway. But then he found the cowboy trunk. It was two months'' rent to me and nothing but some squirrelly alien kitsch-fetish to Craphound. So I did the unthinkable. I violated the Code. I got into a bidding war with a buddy. Never let them tell you that women poison friendships: in my experience, wounds from women-fights heal quickly; fights over garbage leave nothing behind but scorched earth. Craphound spotted the sign -- his karma, plus the goggles in his exoskeleton, gave him the advantage when we were doing 80 kmh on some stretch of back-highway in cottage country. He was riding shotgun while I drove, and we had the radio on to the CBC''s summer-Saturday programming: eight weekends with eight hours of old radio dramas: "The Shadow,"

Now available for the first time with two additional stories! Have you ever wondered what it''s like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow''s collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok. "Anda''s Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"—systems administrators—as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too. Plus, for the first time, this collection includes "Petard" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."

"I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower.

Fantascienza - romanzo (125 pagine) - Sarà affidato alle stampanti 3d e al crowdfunding il futuro della Luna? - Premio Theodore Sturgeon 2015 Nel 1950 Robert A. Heinlein scrisse un romanzo breve intitolato L’uomo che vendette la luna, nel quale ipotizzava che il futuro della conquista dello spazio fosse nelle mani dell’impresa privata. Oggi, con i voli della Virgin Galactic e della SpaceX la predizione di Heinlein sta cominciando ad avverarsi, ma Cory Doctorow fa un ulteriore passo avanti: perché il futuro non è fatto solo di profitti ma anche di sogni, e il sogno della conquista della luna forse deve essere portato avanti dai sognatori, dai nerd che vivono di tecnologia, di fantascienza e di ideali. Cory Doctorow è nato a Toronto, in Canada, nel 1971. Ha vissuto a Londra da diversi anni e nel 2011 ha ottenuto la cittadinanza britannica; attualmente vive in California. Cresciuto in una famiglia di attivisti dell’antinucleare e di Greenpeace, è stato coordinatore per l’Europa dell’Electronic Frontier Foundation, l’organizzazione senza scopo di lucro che si batte a favore del software libero. È ed è stato collaboratore del Guardian, del New York Times, di Publishers Weekly, di Wired, ma la maggiore notorietà l’ha ottenuta come fondatore e curatore di Boing Boing (boingboing.net), forse il più famoso blog del pianeta. Ha scritto vari romanzi, tradotti in una dozzina di lingue e rilasciati tutti, dopo la pubblicazione, con licenza Creative Commons e download gratuito. Il suo romanzo Little Brother, una distopia per ragazzi, è stato candidato a tutti i maggiori premi del settore. Nel 2008 ha vinto il premio Locus col romanzo Infoguerra, pubblicato in questa collana, e nel 2015 il premio Theodore Sturgeon col presente The Man Who Sold the Moon. È sposato e ha una figlia di otto anni.

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The tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It''s a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It''s a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person''s real livelihood is at stake. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. This title has common Core connections. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Em um futuro próximo, Jimmy, um pré-adolescente trans-humano, caça wumpus — monstros mecânicos que transformam matéria inorgânica em solo arável — e defende a última cidade sobre a Terra, preservada como relíquia da Era da Ciência. Quando se depara com uma menina, de "carne", do grupo rival dos Ecochatos, Jimmy terá que escolher entre a imortalidade e o sexo, em uma das mais ousadas histórias de Cory Doctorow, autor bestseller do New York Times com o romance Pequeno irmão .

Vor einigen Jahren hat sich Marcus Yallow mit Homeland Security angelegt – und gewonnen. Nun ist er Webmaster für einen aufstrebenden Politiker, der dem von Wirtschaftskrisen gebeutelten Kalifornien Reformen verspricht und gegen die staatliche Überwachung vorgehen will. Doch dann bekommt Marcus von Masha, seiner früheren Gegenspielerin, einen USB-Stick mit brandheißen und streng vertraulichen Daten zugesteckt, die er veröffentlichen soll. Er zögert, denn wenn er sich dazu bekennt, kostet ihn das seinen Job. Wenn er aber nicht mitspielt, machen die Behörden munter weiter. Was soll er tun? Und dann sind da auch noch die verdächtigen Gestalten, die Marcus immer enger beschatten ...