Cory Doctorow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
3) Homeland
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxv, 162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today -- about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. Information...
5) The bezzle
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
6) Walkaway
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the 'Communist parties,' techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. 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...
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a--contain your excitement--self-employed forensic accountant,...
9) In real life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Physical Desc
xii, 175 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"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. 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...
10) For the win
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.
11) The lost cause
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Makers
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world. Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mostly Void, Partially Stars introduces us to Night Vale, a town in the American Southwest where every conspiracy theory is true, and to the strange but friendly people who live there.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions.
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic
...Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring tribute in text and photos to librarians and libraries in all fifty American states and Canada describes the diverse backgrounds and motivations of today's librarians and includes original essays by such contributors as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, and Paula Poundstone.
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 N. K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, Cory Doctorow, Ann Leckie, Ken Liu and Charlie Jane Anders and more. From...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xix, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . [An anthology of short stories that] explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be -- and what they can become -- in smart and singular ways." -- Page [4] of cover.