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Books by Cory Doctorow mentioned on podcasts

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11 books across 17 episodes on 3 podcasts.

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  1. Walkaway

    7 mentions · This Week in Startups, Behind the Bastards

    Walkaway is a science-fiction novel by Cory Doctorow that explores themes of solarpunk living, automation, and communities establishing themselves far away from existing government structures.

    Discussed
    “Cory Dotoro wrote about this stuff. Not in his book. it was walk away like it's an old idea like in terms of coming back”
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  2. Pirate Cinema

    2 mentions · Behind the Bastards

    Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow is a young adult science fiction novel that explores the world of copyright enforcement, digital rights, and intellectual property in a near-future London.

    Recommended
    “There's a really good Corey Doctoro book that's like a fictionalized account of what this period was like called Pirate Cinema that is great. So if you ever want to Yeah. If people want to read that, it is very good.”
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  3. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

    3 mentions · Breaking Points

    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow is a critical examination of artificial intelligence development, industry hype, and technological bubbles.

    Discussed
    “And he's out with a new book called the reverse centaur's guide to life after AI that gives his view of AI development, what's real, what's false, is it a hype machine, is it a bubble, how should you approach it?”
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  4. Attack Surface

    2 mentions · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “Um I'm curious, we've got a little bit of time left and I wanted to ask in your your novel Attack Service, uh I know was released 2020, right? October if I'm not mistaken.”
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  5. For the Win

    1 mention · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “re reading this book by Corey Doctra friend of the show called for the win which is about a bunch of gold miners in in a video game unionizing there's like a plot right but then in between the plot there will just be a chapter that is Cory Dtoro explaining to you how the 2008 financial collapse happens”
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  6. Little Brother

    1 mention · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “Um, and so, you know, the the this expansion of surveillance is like been on my mind for a long time. I've been writing about it well at least since little brother, right? So 2006 I wrote that novel”
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  7. Radicalized

    1 mention · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “There's a great short story that y'all turned me on to by Corey Doctoro in a a book of short stories called Radicalize though. Was it was it just called The Mask of the Red Death?”
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  8. The Bezzle

    6 mentions · Behind the Bastards

    The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow is a fiction novel that deals with serious, non-fictional issues regarding how finance ghouls and the private prison system have negatively impacted the lives of incarcerated people.

    Discussed
    “our guest is the great Corey Doctoro activist writer author uh of a book called the bezel um which is a fiction novel but deals with some very non-fictional stuff in relation to how finance ghouls have changed life for people behind bars.”
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  9. Unauthorized Bread

    1 mention · Behind the Bastards

    Discussed
    “There's a a wonderful Corey Doctoro short story that that I think pivots off that idea nicely um in his uh his book uh uh what is unauthorized toast I think or unauthorized bread. Now, Unauthorized Bread is one of the stories in it, but the the book is has a different I it's a collection of his short stories”
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