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{{Short description|Canadian-British writer (born 1971)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
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| name             = Cory Doctorow
| image            = Re publica faces 2019 (32858497617).jpg
| image_size       = 220
| caption          = Doctorow in 2019
| alt              = Black-and-white portrait of Cory Doctorow, a white man in his late 40s. He smiles at the camera with raised eyebrows, wearing dark-rimmed glasses, a suit jacket with a button on the lapel and a pen in the breast pocket over a button-up T-shirt. A headset microphone is visible, and his hair is cut short in a buzz cut.
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|7|17}}
| birth_place      = [[Toronto, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| nationality      = Canadian,<br />British, American
| occupation       = Author, blogger
| genre            = [[Science fiction]], [[postcyberpunk]]
| movement         = 
| notableworks     = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]]'';
* ''[[Little Brother (Doctorow novel)|Little Brother]]''
}}
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Alice Taylor (businesswoman)|Alice Taylor]]|October 2008|}}
| children         = 1
| awards           = {{Plainlist|
* John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* John W. Campbell Memorial Award
* Prometheus Award
* Sunburst Award
}}
| website          = {{URL|https://pluralistic.net/}}
}}

'''Cory Efram Doctorow''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɔr|i|_|ˈ|d|ɒ|k|t|ər|oʊ}}; born 17 July 1971) is a [[Canadian-British]] [[blog]]ger, [[journalist]], and [[science fiction]] author who served 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 its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include [[digital rights management]], [[file sharing]], and [[post scarcity|post-scarcity]] economics.<ref name=USCbio>{{cite web |url=http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/about/bio_detail/cory_doctorow/ |title=Cory Doctorow |publisher=USC Center on Public Diplomacy USC |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006175229/http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/about/bio_detail/cory_doctorow/ |archive-date=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="FiftyFigures">{{cite book|first1=Benjamin Aleksandr|last1=Franz|title=Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture|chapter=Cory Doctorow (1971–)|year=2022|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003091189-13/cory-doctorow-1971%E2%80%93-benjamin-aleksandr-franz|doi=10.4324/9781003091189|isbn=9781003091189|pages=59–62|archive-date=3 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503190339/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003091189-13/cory-doctorow-1971%E2%80%93-benjamin-aleksandr-franz|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Cory Efram Doctorow was born in [[Toronto, Ontario]], on 17 July 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 July 2013|title=Literary Birthday – 17 July – Cory Doctorow|url=https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|access-date=22 October 2020|website=Writers Write|language=en-GB|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024062750/https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|url-status=live}}</ref> He is of [[Ashkenazi Jewish]] descent.<ref>{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a12634/what-my-father-taught-me-cory-doctorow-15526233/|access-date=10 May 2021|title=What My Father Taught Me: Cory Doctorow|website=Popular Mechanics|date=28 May 2013|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143315/https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a12634/what-my-father-taught-me-cory-doctorow-15526233/|url-status=live}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was born in what became Poland and his paternal grandmother was from [[Leningrad, Russia]] (St. Petersburg). Both fled [[Nazi Germany]]'s advance eastward during [[World War II]], and as a result Doctorow's father was born in a [[displaced person]]s camp near [[Baku, Azerbaijan]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|url=http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/azeri-donkey-video-b.html|title=Azeri "donkey video" bloggers arrested|date=2 September 2009|access-date=2 September 2009|archive-date=5 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905051959/http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/azeri-donkey-video-b.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His grandparents and father migrated to [[Canada]] from the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="insight">{{cite web |last1=Jacobsen |first1=Scott Douglas |title=An Interview with Cory Efram Doctorow (Part One) |url=https://in-sightjournal.com/2018/07/08/doctorow-one/ |website=In-Sight Publishing |date=9 July 2018 |access-date=29 June 2020 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630141442/https://in-sightjournal.com/2018/07/08/doctorow-one/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Doctorow's mother's family were Ukrainian-Russian Romanians.<ref name="insight" />

Doctorow is a friend of [[Columbia Law School|Columbia law]] professor [[Tim Wu]], dating to their time together in elementary school.<ref name="nationalpost">{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/toronto-superstar-academic-who-coined-net-neutrality-could-be-nominee-for-n-y-lieutenant-governor |title=Toronto superstar academic who coined 'net-neutrality' could be nominee for N.Y. lieutenant-governor |newspaper=[[National Post]] |date=6 September 2014 |first=Richard |last=Warnica |access-date=2024-11-10 |archive-date=2024-11-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110150025/https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/toronto-superstar-academic-who-coined-net-neutrality-could-be-nominee-for-n-y-lieutenant-governor |url-status=live}}</ref> Doctorow went to summer camp as a young teenager at what he has described as a "hippy summer camp" at [[Grindstone Island (Ontario)|Grindstone Island]], near [[Portland, Ontario]], that was influential on his intellectual life and development.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/features/sense-of-place/sense-of-place:-cory-doctorow,-grindstone-island,-ontario/9478254|title=Sense of Place: Cory Doctorow, Grindstone Island, Ontario|date=23 February 2018|website=Radio National|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-date=25 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925193732/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/features/sense-of-place/sense-of-place:-cory-doctorow,-grindstone-island,-ontario/9478254|url-status=live}}</ref> He quit high school,<ref name=GMSFBC>{{Citation |author = Doctorow, C.| date = 2010 | chapter = There's a great big beautiful tomorrow / Now is the best time of your life | editor=Strahan, Jonathan |editor-link=Jonathan Strahan |title=Godlike Machines  |publisher=Science Fiction Book Club |location =[[Garden City, New York]] | page = 167 | isbn=9781616647599 }}</ref> received his [[Ontario Academic Credit]] (high school diploma) from the [[SEED School (Toronto)|SEED School]] in Toronto,<ref>{{cite web|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|date=July 3, 2023|title=Commentary by Cory Doctorow: SF Doesn't Predict, It Contests|url=https://locusmag.com/2023/07/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-sf-doesnt-predict-it-contests/|work=Locus|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=13 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913233340/https://locusmag.com/2023/07/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-sf-doesnt-predict-it-contests/|url-status=live}}</ref> and attended four universities without obtaining a degree.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Graduation certificate from Mom and Dad |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/49871683232/in/datetaken/ |website=Flickr.com |date=8 May 2020 |publisher=Self-published by subject |access-date=18 May 2020 |quote=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. |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801142246/https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/49871683232/in/datetaken/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Cory Doctorow has stated both that he is not related to the American novelist [[E. L. Doctorow]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/rip-el-doctorow.html|title=RIP, EL Doctorow|date=22 July 2015|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-date=4 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704170034/https://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/rip-el-doctorow.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and that he may be a third cousin once removed of the novelist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Cory_Doctorow_related_to_author_EL_Doctorow|title=Is Cory Doctorow related to author EL Doctorow?|website=[[Answers.com]]|date=23 December 2012|access-date=16 July 2021|archive-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716113518/https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Cory_Doctorow_related_to_author_EL_Doctorow|url-status=live}}</ref>  Thomas Rankin in ''Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works'' (2007) describes Doctorow as "a distant cousin of author E.L. Doctorow".<ref name="rankin">Rankin, Thomas. (January 2007). "Cory Doctorow". ''Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works''. Salem Press. p. 1. Ebsco.</ref>

In June 1999, Doctorow co-founded the [[free software]] [[Peer-to-peer|P2P]] company Opencola<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heltze |first=Paul |date=9 April 2001 |title=OpenCola-Have Some Code and a Smile |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2001/04/09/235916/opencola-have-some-code-and-a-smile/ |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en |archive-date=5 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405195432/https://www.technologyreview.com/2001/04/09/235916/opencola-have-some-code-and-a-smile/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with John Henson and Grad Conn, which was sold to the [[Open Text Corporation]] of [[Waterloo, Ontario]], in the summer of 2003.<ref name="USCbio"/> The company used a drink called [[OpenCola (drink)|OpenCola]] as part of its promotional campaign.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/trade-secrets-open-source-cola|title=Open source cola and the 'Napster moment' for the food business|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|date=13 April 2013|author=Steadman, Ian|access-date=13 February 2019|quote=It's called Open Cola, a product first produced by now-defunct Toronto software company Opencola as something of a joke. Taking inspiration from Richard Stallman's famous dictum that free software was "free as in speech, not as in beer", it was meant as a kind of promotional tool. The recipe was published online for anyone to take and adapt. Version 1.0 was published on 27 January 2001 – the latest version is 1.1.3. Opencola closed in 2003, but Open Cola's recipe is still around.|archive-date=13 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213183705/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/trade-secrets-open-source-cola|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Cory Doctorow @ eTech 2007.jpeg|thumb|Doctorow at eTech 2007, wearing a cape and goggles in reference to his depiction in webcomic ''[[xkcd]]'']]
Doctorow later relocated to [[London]] and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] (EFF) for four years,<ref name=USCbio/> helping to establish the [[Open Rights Group]], before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006; Doctorow remained a Fellow of the EFF for some time after his departure from the EFF Staff.<ref name=USCbio/><ref>As of 24 September 2019, the name Doctorow no longer appears in search results for uscpublicdiplomacy.com.</ref> He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian [[Fulbright]] Chair for [[Public Diplomacy]] at the [[USC Center on Public Diplomacy]], sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission,<ref>{{cite web |author = Fulbright-Canada Staff | url=http://www.fulbright.ca/en/pdf/2006_Award_Recipients_Eng.pdf  |title=2006 Award Recipients  |access-date=2 September 2008 |work=Royal Fulbright Commission web site  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229090257/http://www.fulbright.ca/en/pdf/2006_Award_Recipients_Eng.pdf  |archive-date=29 February 2008 |url-status=dead 
}}</ref> the [[Integrated Media Systems Center]], and the University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the [[University of Southern California]] in [[Los Angeles]], United States.<ref name=USCbio/><ref>{{cite journal|url = http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i31/31a03001.htm|title = A Blogger Infiltrates Academe|access-date = 9 February 2008|author = Read, Brock|date = 6 April 2007|journal = Chronicle of Higher Education|volume = 53|number = 31|page = A30|archive-date = 9 July 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080709004351/http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i31/31a03001.htm|url-status = live}}</ref> He then returned to London, but remained a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.

In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the [[University of Waterloo]] in Ontario.<ref name="waterloo4">{{cite web|title=University of Waterloo: Scholar in Virtual Residence|url=http://is.uwaterloo.ca/staff_archive.htm|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=8 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707204253/http://is.uwaterloo.ca/staff_archive.htm|archive-date=7 July 2012}}</ref> He had been a student in the program during 1993–94, but had 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.<ref name="waterloo4"/> In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conferment of Honorary Degrees and Presentation of Graduates|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Graduate-Directory-2012-WEB.pdf|publisher=www.open.ac.uk|access-date=13 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221235231/http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Graduate-Directory-2012-WEB.pdf|archive-date=21 February 2014}}</ref>

Doctorow married [[Alice Taylor (businesswoman)|Alice Taylor]] in October 2008;<ref>{{cite web|author = Doctorow, C.|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/little-brother-uk-ed.html|title = Little Brother UK edition signed!|access-date = 27 October 2008|date = 27 October 2008|work = BoingBoing|archive-date = 27 October 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081027214646/http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/little-brother-uk-ed.html|url-status = live}}</ref> they have a daughter named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/03/fine-news.html|title = Fine News|access-date = 9 February 2008|author = Doctorow, C.|date = 3 February 2008|publisher = BoingBoing|archive-date = 10 February 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080210095608/http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/03/fine-news.html|url-status = live}}</ref> Doctorow became a British citizen by [[naturalisation]] on 12 August 2011.<ref>{{Citation |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=UK Citizenship Certificate, Cory Doctorow (redacted).tif |date=12 August 2011 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/6034751827/ |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728165520/https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/6034751827/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2015, Doctorow decided to leave London and move to Los Angeles, expressing disappointment at London's "death" after Britain's choice of [[Conservative Party (UK)|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."<ref>{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|date=29 June 2015|url=http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html|title=Why I'm leaving London|publisher=BoingBoing|access-date=30 June 2015|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630011338/http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He rejoined the EFF in January 2015 to campaign for the eradication of [[Digital rights management|digital rights management (DRM)]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM everywhere|url=https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff-eradicate-drm-everywhere|website=EFF.org|publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|access-date=31 October 2016|date=20 January 2015|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911095405/https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff-eradicate-drm-everywhere|url-status=live}}</ref>

Doctorow left ''Boing Boing'' in January 2020, and soon started a solo blogging project titled ''Pluralistic''.<ref name="Pluralistic-20yearsblogger">{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=20 years a blogger |url=https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/640203818282434560/20-years-a-blogger |website=Mostly Signs (Some Portents) |access-date=14 January 2021 |date=13 January 2021 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115091751/https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/640203818282434560/20-years-a-blogger |url-status=live }}</ref> 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''.<ref name="Pluralistic-20yearsblogger" /><ref name="metafilter-doctorow-beatles">{{cite web |title=In the blog world, this is the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up |url=https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-the-equivalent-of-the-Beatles-breaking-up |website=MetaFilter |access-date=14 January 2021 |date=30 March 2020 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115120912/https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-the-equivalent-of-the-Beatles-breaking-up |url-status=live }}</ref> Given the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and ''Boing Boing'', MetaFilter described this news as "the equivalent of [[the Beatles]] [[Break-up of the Beatles|breaking up]]" for the blog world.<ref name="metafilter-doctorow-beatles" /> Doctorow's exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boing Boing: Wayback Machine snapshot as of 30 January 2020 |url=http://boingboing.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130012547/http://boingboing.net |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 January 2020 |date=30 January 2020 |quote=Doctorow's name appears as an editor on the Wayback Machine's 2020-01-29 10:09:04 Boing Boing snapshot, but it does not appear on the 2020-01-30 01:25:47 snapshot}}</ref>

===Other work, activism, and fellowships===
Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Levinson |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Levinson |date=15 June 2000 |url=http://sfwa.org/news/doctorow.htm |title=New Canadian Regional Director |website=[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001208223100/http://sfwa.org/news/doctorow.htm |archive-date=8 December 2000 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 November 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monochrom.at/piracy/|title=piracy messages|website=www.monochrom.at|access-date=24 January 2006|archive-date=14 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114192212/http://www.monochrom.at/piracy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://netzpolitik.org/2007/instant-blitz-copy-fight-project/|title=Instant Blitz Copy Fight Project|date=22 May 2007|access-date=8 April 2016|archive-date=17 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217023554/https://netzpolitik.org/2007/instant-blitz-copy-fight-project/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 31 October 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning [[digital rights management]] with [[Sony-BMG]], as told in ''[[Wikinomics]]'', a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tapscott |first=Dan |author2=Williams, Anthony D.  |title=Wikinomics |year=2006 |publisher=Portfolio/Penguin Books |isbn=978-1-59184-138-8 |pages=34–37 |url=https://archive.org/details/wikinomicshowmas00taps/page/34 |url-access=registration }}</ref>

As a user of the [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor anonymity network]] for more than a decade during his global travels, Doctorow publicly supports the network; furthermore, Boing Boing operates a "high speed, high-quality exit node."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-cory-doctorow|title=This is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Cory Doctorow|publisher=The Tor Blog|access-date=28 December 2015|archive-date=16 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616210816/https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-cory-doctorow|url-status=live}}</ref>

Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the July 2016 [[Hackers on Planet Earth]] conference.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://xi.hope.net/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-the-eleventh-hope/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317030857/https://xi.hope.net/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-the-eleventh-hope/|archive-date=17 March 2016|title=Cory Doctorow to Keynote at The Eleventh HOPE &#124; The Eleventh HOPE|newspaper=The Eleventh Hope |date=17 March 2016}}</ref> He also presented on [[enshittification]] at the 2024 conference, HOPE XV.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/speaker/HHK9UM/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714202717/https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/speaker/HHK9UM/|archive-date=14 July 2024|title=Cory Doctorow :: HOPE XV :: pretalx|date=14 July 2024}}</ref>

Doctorow was appointed as an A.D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University from 2024–2030.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Science fiction novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow appointed as A.D. White Professor-at-Large – Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large Program |url=https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/announcements/internationally-renowned-science-fiction-novelist-and-technology-activist-cory-doctorow-appointed-as-a-d-white-professor-at-large/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu}}</ref>

He is a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]].<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=Cory Doctorow |user=doctorow |number=1454158218117197826 |title=Uhhhhhh. I am a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. I was raised by Trotskyists. This is, as the physicists say, "not even wrong." }}</ref>

==Fiction==
[[File:Cory Doctorow portrait by Jonathan Worth 1.jpg|thumb|right|Doctorow in his office, 2009]]
Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old, and sold several stories, followed by publication of the story "Craphound" in 1998.<ref name="GMSFBC" />

''[[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]]'', Doctorow's first novel, was published in January 2003, and was the first novel released under one of the [[Creative Commons licences]], allowing readers to circulate the electronic edition as long as they neither made money from it nor used it to create [[derived work]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 March 2011 |title=Cory Doctorow: How free translates to business survival |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12701664 |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728165321/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12701664 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FiftyFigures" /> The electronic edition was released simultaneously with the print edition.<ref name="FiftyFigures" /> In February 2004, it was re-released with a different Creative Commons license that allowed derivative works such as [[fan fiction]], but still prohibited commercial usage.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |date=2003 |publisher=Tor Books |isbn=0765304368 |page=3 |url=https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.pdf |access-date=19 August 2022 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201061211/https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

''Down and Out...'' was nominated for a [[Nebula Award]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_nebula_index.asp |title=The Nebula Award Listing; Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=17 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017085104/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_Nebula_index.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> and won the [[Locus Award]] for Best First Novel in 2004.<ref name="locus-2004">{{cite web |title=2004 Locus Awards |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2004.html#nvl1 |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=17 June 2014 |date=3 September 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301140908/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2004.html#nvl1 |archive-date=1 March 2007 }}</ref> A semi-sequel short story named ''Truncat'' was published on [[Salon.com]] in August 2003.<ref name="salon-truncat">{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2003/08/26/truncat/ |title=Truncat |date=27 August 2003 |author=Cory Doctorow |work=Salon |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-date=10 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010074250/http://www.salon.com/2003/08/26/truncat/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

His novel ''[[Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town]],'' published in June 2005, was chosen to launch the [[Science fiction|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 [[Sunburst Award]]-winning short-story collection<ref name="sunburst-2004">{{cite web |title=2004 Sunburst Award Winner |url=http://www.sunburstaward.org/2004_winner.html |website=www.sunburstaward.org |publisher=The Sunburst Award Society |access-date=17 June 2014 |date=1 September 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232838/http://www.sunburstaward.org/2004_winner.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 }}</ref> ''[[A Place So Foreign and Eight More]]'' was also published in 2004: "[[0wnz0red]]" from this collection was nominated for the 2004 [[Nebula Award]] for Best Novelette.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula2004.html |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |title=2004 Nebula Awards |date=17 April 2004 |publisher=Locusmag.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713224755/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula2004.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 }}</ref>

[[Image:Doctorow, Tešanović, Sterling.jpg|thumb|Doctorow (left) pictured at the 2006 Lift Conference with fellow [[Boing Boing]] contributor [[Jasmina Tešanović]] (centre) and [[cyberpunk]] author [[Bruce Sterling]] (right)]]

Doctorow released the bestselling novel ''[[Little Brother (Cory Doctorow novel)|Little Brother]]'' in 2008 with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2008/04/28/little-brother-the-remixable-drm-free-audiobook/ |title=Little Brother Blog |publisher=Craphound.com |date=28 April 2008 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518100956/http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2008/04/28/little-brother-the-remixable-drm-free-audiobook/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was nominated for a [[Hugo Award for Best Novel]] in 2009,<ref name="hugo-09">{{cite web |website=www.anticipation.sf.ca |url=http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos |title=AnticipationSF Hugo Nominees: Best Novel |date=31 January 2010 |publisher=Anticipation: The 67th World Science Fiction Convention |access-date=17 June 2014 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606013027/http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos |url-status=live }}</ref> and won the 2009 [[Prometheus Award]],<ref name="lfs.org">{{cite web |url=http://lfs.org/releases.htm |title=Libertarian Futurist Society |publisher=Lfs.org |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=27 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327144557/http://www.lfs.org/releases.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Sunburst Award,<ref name="2009 Winners: The Sunburst Awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2009-winners |title=2009 Winners: The Sunburst Awards |publisher=The Sunburst Award Society |date=28 September 2009 |website=www.sunburstaward.org |access-date=30 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202043522/http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2009-winners |archive-date=2 December 2012 }}</ref> and the 2009 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]].<ref name="locus-jwc-09">{{cite web |title=2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Cmem2009.html#w |publisher=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]-Locus Publications |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017224630/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Cmem2009.html#w |archive-date=17 October 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=17 June 2014 |date= 7–12 July 2009 }}</ref>

His novel ''[[Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)|Makers]]'' was released in October 2009, and was serialised for free on the [[Tor Books]] website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=35734 |title=Cory Doctorow's Makers; Blog posts |publisher=Tor.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=11 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711210107/http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=35734 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Doctorow released another [[young adult novel]], ''[[For the Win]]'', in May 2010.<ref name="GMSFBC" /> The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper format by Tor Books. The book is about "greenfarming", and concerns massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/walh/ |title=Post publication progress report for "With a Little Help" |publisher=Craphound.com |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=27 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927185609/http://craphound.com/walh/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/15883-doctorow-s-project-with-a-little-help.html |work=Publishers Weekly |author=Cory Doctorow |title=Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help |date=19 October 2009 |access-date=6 May 2011 |archive-date=15 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515042044/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/15883-doctorow-s-project-with-a-little-help.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2012, Doctorow released ''[[The Rapture of the Nerds]]'', a novel written in collaboration with [[Charles Stross]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Upcoming4.me |url=http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/9434-cory-doctorow,-charles-stross-rapture-of-the-nerds-cover-art-and-summary-reveal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718123324/http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/9434-cory-doctorow,-charles-stross-rapture-of-the-nerds-cover-art-and-summary-reveal |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |title=Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross' Rapture of The Nerds cover art and summary reveal |publisher=Upcoming4.me |access-date=31 May 2012 }}</ref>

Doctorow's  [[young adult novel]] ''[[Pirate Cinema (novel)|Pirate Cinema]]'' was released in October 2012. It won the 2013 [[Prometheus Award]].<ref name="lfs-2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.lfs.org/releases/2013Winners.shtml |title=2013 Prometheus Winners Announced |publisher=Libertarian Futurist Society |date=20 July 2012 |website=www.lfs.org |access-date=7 February 2014 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233753/http://www.lfs.org/releases/2013Winners.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2013, Doctorow released ''[[Homeland (Cory Doctorow novel)|Homeland]]'', the sequel to his novel ''Little Brother''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2012/06/20/cover-for-homeland-the-sequel-to-little-brother/ |title=Cover for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother |website=Craphound.com |date=20 June 2012 |access-date=6 December 2012 |archive-date=18 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818164444/http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2012/06/20/cover-for-homeland-the-sequel-to-little-brother/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It won the 2014 [[Prometheus Award]] (Doctorow's third novel to win this award).

His novel ''[[Walkaway (Doctorow novel)|Walkaway]]'' was released in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/author_cory_doctorow_to_speak_at_uc_san_diego_on_scarcity_abundance_and_the|title=Author Cory Doctorow to Speak at UC San Diego on Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529233017/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/author_cory_doctorow_to_speak_at_uc_san_diego_on_scarcity_abundance_and_the|url-status=live}}</ref>

In March 2019, Doctorow released ''[[Radicalized (Doctorow book)|Radicalized]]'', a collection of four self-contained science-fiction novellas dealing with how life in America could be in the near future.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2019/01/16/book-announcements-radicalized-cory-doctorow/|title=Revealing Radicalized, A New Book From Cory Doctorow|access-date=27 March 2019|date=16 January 2019|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327225845/https://www.tor.com/2019/01/16/book-announcements-radicalized-cory-doctorow/|url-status=live}}</ref> The book was selected for the 2020 edition of ''[[Canada Reads]]'', in which it was defended by [[Akil Augustine]].<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2020-contenders-1.5433115 "Meet the Canada Reads 2020 contenders"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209094051/https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2020-contenders-1.5433115 |date=9 February 2020 }}. [[CBC Books]], 22 January 2020.</ref>

''Attack Surface'', a standalone adult novel set in the "Little Brother" universe, was released on 13 October 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531 |title=Attack Surface |access-date=16 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618045710/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|title=His Writing Radicalized Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them|language=en-us|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wants-to-redeem-them/|access-date=22 October 2020|issn=1059-1028|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023010319/https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wants-to-redeem-them/|url-status=live}}</ref>

His novel called ''Red Team Blues'', a financial thriller about cybersecurity, was released in April 2023. It features a character named Martin Hench.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Thom |title=Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: a refreshingly hopeful finance thriller about cryptocurrency |url=https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/cory-doctorows-red-team-blues-a-refreshingly-hopeful-finance-thriller-about-cryptocurrency.html |website=Boing Boing |date=27 April 2023 |access-date=1 May 2023 |archive-date=30 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430095620/https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/cory-doctorows-red-team-blues-a-refreshingly-hopeful-finance-thriller-about-cryptocurrency.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Standalone hopepunk novel ''[[The Lost Cause (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.<ref>{{Cite web |access-date=15 October 2024 |title=The Lost Cause |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/thelostcause}}</ref>

{{Anchor|bezzle}}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.<ref>{{Cite web |access-date=15 October 2024 |title=The Bezzle |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels/ |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |access-date=10 March 2025}}</ref>

==Nonfiction and other writings==
Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book, ''[[The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction]]'' (co-written with [[Karl Schroeder]] and published in 2000),<ref>{{cite news|last=Lilley|first=Ernest|date=2001|title=Review|issue=1|volume=1|url=https://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2001/0101/9981%20Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF/Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF.htm|publisher=SFRevu|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=22 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622113846/http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2001/0101/9981%20Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF/Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Spence|first=Ewan|date=November 18, 2004|url=http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Cory_Doctorow_the_EFF_Interview.php|publisher=AAS: All About Symbian|title=Cory Doctorow (the EFF) Interview|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=20 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620021617/http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Cory_Doctorow_the_EFF_Interview.php|url-status=live}}</ref> his contributions to [[Boing Boing]], the blog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in the magazines ''[[Popular Science]]'' and ''[[Make (magazine)|Make]]''.<ref name="rankin"/> He is a contributing writer to ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine,<ref name="rankin"/> and contributes occasionally to other magazines and newspapers such as the ''[[New York Times Sunday Magazine]]'', ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'' magazine, and the ''[[Boston Globe]]''.

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.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Yeffeth | editor-first=Glenn | title=The Anthology At The End Of The Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors On Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | publisher=BenBella Books | publication-place=Dallas, Tex | date=2005-03-11 | isbn=1-932100-56-3 | oclc=57514685}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|display-authors=etal|url=http://boingboing.net/2006/10/24/worldchanging-users.html|title=WorldChanging: User's guide for the 21st Century|date=24 October 2006|access-date=11 September 2012|archive-date=26 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526200121/http://boingboing.net/2006/10/24/worldchanging-users.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

He popularised the term "[[metacrap]]" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm |title=Metacrap |publisher=Well.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=8 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508200721/http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Some of his nonfiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by [[Tachyon Publications]] as ''Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future''. In 2016, he wrote the article ''Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker''  (published on ''MIT Technology Review'') as a review of the TV show ''[[Mr. Robot]]'' and argued for a better portrayal and understanding of technology, computers and their risks and consequences in our modern world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/|title=Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|date=7 December 2016|website=MIT Technology Review|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109023222/https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/|url-status=live}}</ref>

His essay "You Can't Own Knowledge" is included in the [[Freesouls]] book project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html|title=Freesouls – You Can't Own Knowledge|first=Cory|last=Doctorow|access-date=19 September 2012|archive-date=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826033843/http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite web
| title = Doctorow's Law: Who Benefits from DRM?
| work = Electronic Frontier Foundation
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| date = 20 April 2009
| access-date = 25 February 2013
| archive-date = 28 January 2013
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=15 April 2009 |title=TOC 09: Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks |url=http://blip.tv/oreilly-tools-of-change-for-publishing-conference/toc-09-digital-distribution-and-the-whip-hand-don-t-get-itunesed-with-your-ebooks-cory-doctorow-2006465 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221115758/http://blip.tv/oreilly-tools-of-change-for-publishing-conference/toc-09-digital-distribution-and-the-whip-hand-don-t-get-itunesed-with-your-ebooks-cory-doctorow-2006465 |archive-date=21 February 2013 |access-date=25 February 2013 |work=O'Reilly}} [http://boingboing.net/2009/04/15/my-drm-and-ebooks-ta.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509200226/http://boingboing.net/2009/04/15/my-drm-and-ebooks-ta.html|date=9 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Digital Rights Management vs. the Inevitability of Free Content: Book Publishing, the Illusion of Piracy, and Giving the Customer What they Pay For
| work = Simon Fraser University's Digital Publishing Workshop 2009
| url = http://www.slideshare.net/cranbury/digital-rights-managment-vs-the-inevitability-of-free-content
| date = 25 July 2009
| access-date = 25 February 2013
| archive-date = 2 May 2013
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| url-status = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |title       = Submission to the Canadian Copyright Consultation
 |work        = Industry Canada (www.ic.gc.ca)
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Internet Crapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress
| work = Internet Evolution
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| date = 20 April 2009
| access-date = 25 February 2013
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Writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2022, Doctorow listed the many problems confronting [[Facebook]] and suggested that its future would be increasingly fraught.<ref name="doctorow-2022">{{cite news
 | last1 = Doctorow
 | first1 = Cory
 | title = I've been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I'm more hopeful than ever
 | date = 24 February 2022
| work = The Guardian
 | location = London, United Kingdom
 | issn = 0261-3077
 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/ive-been-waiting-15-years-for-facebook-to-die-im-more-hopeful-than-ever
 | access-date = 24 February 2022
 | archive-date = 24 February 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220224172727/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/ive-been-waiting-15-years-for-facebook-to-die-im-more-hopeful-than-ever
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>

==Opinions==
[[File:Cory Doctorow and Konstantine Anthony, WGAW Picket, Warner Brothers, Burbank, California, USA.jpg|thumb|Doctorow (left), alongside Mayor of [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] [[Konstantine Anthony]], picketing in support of the [[2023 Writers Guild of America strike]]]]

===Intellectual property===
Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalised to allow for free sharing of all digital media. He has also advocated [[filesharing]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/12/steal-this-file-shar.html |title=Steal This File Sharing Book – A–Z HOWTO for file-sharing |publisher=Boing Boing |date=12 December 2004 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=7 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007042153/http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/12/steal-this-file-shar.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He argues that copyright holders should have a monopoly on ''selling'' their own digital media and that copyright laws should not be operative unless someone attempts to sell a product that is under someone else's copyright.<ref>{{cite web|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|title=The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine|url=http://iai.tv/video/the-internet-is-not-a-waffle-iron-connected-to-a-fax-machine|publisher=IAI|access-date=29 January 2014|archive-date=9 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209041348/http://iai.tv/video/the-internet-is-not-a-waffle-iron-connected-to-a-fax-machine|url-status=live}}</ref>

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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4454381456832593071 |title=Cory Doctorow at Cambridge Business Lectures |date=22 July 2008 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=3 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103152138/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4454381456832593071 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was a keynote speaker at the 2014 international conference [[CopyCamp]] in [[Warsaw]], Poland<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/call-for-speakers-copycamp-wa.html |title=Call for Speakers: Copycamp Warsaw, with Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Cory |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=27 May 2014 |website=boingboing.net |access-date=25 November 2014 |language=pl |archive-date=26 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126082630/http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/call-for-speakers-copycamp-wa.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with the presentation "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free."<ref>{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo |title=Cory Doctorow – CopyCamp 2014 |publisher=Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska |date=16 December 2014 |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-date=17 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217145805/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Enshittification===
{{main|Enshittification}}
In criticising the decay in usefulness of online platforms, Doctorow in 2022 coined the [[neologism]] ''[[enshittification]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hampton |first1=Rachelle |title=TikTok Isn't For Creators Anymore |url=https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/01/cory-doctorow-how-online-platforms-die |work=ICYMI |publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=21 July 2023 |date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=11 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611205714/https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/01/cory-doctorow-how-online-platforms-die |url-status=live }}</ref> (which he calls ''enpoopification'' on public airwaves<ref>{{cite web |title=Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk's “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/cory_doctorow |website=Democracy Now |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=27 February 2025}}</ref>) which he defines as a degradation of an online environment caused by greed:

<blockquote>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.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=23 January 2023 |access-date=1 June 2023 |url=https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ |title=The 'Enshittification' of TikTok |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|WIRED]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601004832/https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>

The word gained traction in 2023, when it was used by a variety of sources in reference to several major platforms discontinuing free features in order to further their [[monetization#Revenue from business operations|monetization]] or taking other actions that were seen to degrade functionality.<ref>Multiple sources:
* {{cite news |last1=Mosca |first1=Giuditta |title=Cos'è l'enshitting, il male che attanaglia tutti i social |url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/entertainment-e-servizi/cos-l-enshitting-male-che-attanaglia-tutti-i-social-2109745.html |newspaper=[[il Giornale]] |access-date=21 July 2023 |language=it |date=27 January 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029215828/https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/entertainment-e-servizi/cos-l-enshitting-male-che-attanaglia-tutti-i-social-2109745.html |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |last1=Hudson |first1=Alex |title=The Beginning of the End for TikTok? |url=https://www.newsweek.com/newsletter/infinite-scroll/2023-01-31/tiktok-enshttification-heating-algorithm-ban |work=Infinite Scroll |publisher=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719224709/https://www.newsweek.com/newsletter/infinite-scroll/2023-01-31/tiktok-enshttification-heating-algorithm-ban |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |last1=Harford |first1=Tim |title=The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad? |url=https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc |newspaper=[[Forbes]] |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=3 March 2023 |archive-date=13 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613174718/https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |title=Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the 'enshittification' of the Internet |last=Naughton |first=John |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 March 2023 |access-date=1 June 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet |archive-date=31 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531091551/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |title=Why the internet is getting worse |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/why-the-internet-is-getting-worse-1.6880711 |work=Front Burner |publisher=[[CBC Radio]] |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=19 June 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015058/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/why-the-internet-is-getting-worse-1.6880711 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite magazine |last1=Barber |first1=Gregory |title=Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? |url=https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-twitter-alternatives-enshittification-trap/ |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|WIRED]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015101/https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-twitter-alternatives-enshittification-trap/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |last1=Summerson |first1=Isabelle |title='Enshittification' and social media for academics |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/enshittification/102602626 |publisher=[[Radio National|ABC Radio National]] |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=14 July 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015101/https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/enshittification/102602626 |url-status=live }}</ref> In its annual vote, the [[American Dialect Society]] designated enshittification as 2023's [[American Dialect Society#Word of the Year|Word of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web|title=2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"|url=https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/|date=January 5, 2024|website=American Dialect Society|access-date=January 7, 2024|archive-date=13 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113224822/https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=ft>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5|website=ft.com|first=Cory|last=Doctorow|year=2024|title='Enshittification' is coming for absolutely everything|quote=“Enshittification is metastasising into every corner of our lives. Software doesn’t eat the world, it just enshittifies it”|location=London|publisher=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref>

In November 2024, the Australian [[Macquarie Dictionary]] selected it as its word of the year, defining it as follows:<ref>{{cite web
	| title = 'What many of us feel': why 'enshittification' is Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year
	| first = Tory
	| last = Shepherd
	| date = 2024-11-25
	| website = The Guardian
	| url = https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/26/enshittification-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-explained
}}</ref>

<blockquote>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.</blockquote>

==Awards==
* 2000 [[John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/Hugos/hugos2000.html |title=The Long List of Hugo Awards, 2000 |publisher=Nesfa.org |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=22 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122034717/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/Hugos/hugos2000.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 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 (Cory Doctorow)|I, Robot]]"
* 2007 [[Locus Award for Best Novelette]] for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
* 2007 The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] Pioneer Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.privacydigest.com/2007/03/31/eff%20yochai%20benkler%20cory%20doctorow%20and%20bruce%20schneier%20win%20eff%20pioneer%20awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816024607/http://www.privacydigest.com/2007/03/31/eff%20yochai%20benkler%20cory%20doctorow%20and%20bruce%20schneier%20win%20eff%20pioneer%20awards|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 August 2010|title=EFF: Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, and Bruce Schneier Win EFF Pioneer Awards}}</ref>

=== For ''Little Brother'' ===
* 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_campbell_index.asp?at=CA&emulate=&navi=%23year09&Page=1&PageLength=10 |title=The John W. Campbell Memorial Award Listing |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816010157/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_campbell_index.asp?at=CA&emulate=&navi=%23year09&Page=1&PageLength=10 |archive-date=16 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2009 [[Prometheus Award]]<ref name="lfs.org" />
* 2009 Sunburst Award<ref name="2009 Winners: The Sunburst Awards" />
* 2009 [[White Pine Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263-265 |title=White Pine Award list of winners |access-date=28 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930064223/http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263-265 |archive-date=30 September 2011 }}</ref>
* 2018 [[Inkpot Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot |title=Inkpot Award |date=6 December 2012 |access-date=18 October 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129155249/http://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot |url-status=live }}</ref>

;For ''Pirate Cinema''
* 2013 [[Prometheus Award]]<ref name="lfs.org" />

=== For ''Homeland'' ===
* 2014 [[Prometheus Award]]<ref name="lfs.org" />

==Selected bibliography==
In chronological sequence, unless otherwise indicated

===Fiction===

==== Novels ====

*{{cite book|title=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom|year=2003|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-0436-8|title-link=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom}}
*{{cite book|title=Eastern Standard Tribe|year=2004|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-0759-6|title-link=Eastern Standard Tribe}}
*{{cite book|title=Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town|year=2005|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-1278-6|title-link=Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town}} 
*{{cite book|title=Makers|year=2009|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-1279-2|title-link=Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)}} 
*{{cite book|title=For the Win|year=2010|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-2216-6|title-link=For the Win}} 
*''The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow'', 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-6048-6404-5}}
*{{cite book|title=The Rapture of the Nerds|date=September 2012|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-765-32910-3|title-link=The Rapture of the Nerds}} (with [[Charles Stross]])
*{{cite book|title=Pirate Cinema|date=2012|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-2908-0|title-link=Pirate Cinema (novel)}} 
*{{cite book|title=Walkaway|date=2017|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-9276-3|title-link=Walkaway (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
*{{cite book |title=The Lost Cause |date=2023 |publisher=Tor |isbn=978-1-0359-0223-1 |title-link=The Lost Cause (Cory Doctorow novel)}}

===== Little Brother Universe =====
*{{cite book |title=Little Brother |year=2008 |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates |isbn=978-0-7653-1985-2 |title-link=Little Brother (Doctorow novel)}}
*{{cite book|title=Homeland|date=2013|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-3369-8|title-link=Homeland (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
*{{cite book|title=Attack Surface|date=2020|publisher=Head of Zeus|isbn=978-1-8389-3996-0|title-link=Attack Surface (Cory Doctorow novel)}}

===== Martin Hench series =====
*{{cite book|title=Red Team Blues|year=2023|publisher=Head of Zeus|isbn=978-1-8045-4774-8 |title-link=Red Team Blues (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
*{{Cite book |title=The Bezzle |publisher=Tor Books |year=2024 |isbn=978-1250865878}}
*{{Cite book |title=Picks and Shovels|publisher=Tor Books |year=2025 |isbn=9781250865908}}

==== Graphic novels ====
*''In Real Life''. Illustrated by [[Jen Wang]]. First Second.  2014. {{ISBN|978-1596436589}}.
*''Poesy the Monster Slayer''. Illustrated by [[Matt Rockefeller]]. First Second. 2020. {{ISBN|978-1626723627}}.

==== Collections ====
* {{cite book |title=A Place So Foreign and Eight More |year=2003 |publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows |isbn=1568582862|title-link=A Place So Foreign and Eight More }} or {{ISBN|978-1-5685-8286-3}}
* {{cite book |title=Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present |year=2007 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1560259817|title-link=Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present }}
* {{cite book |title=With a Little Help |year=2009 |publisher=Cor-Doc Co. |isbn=9780557943050|title-link=With a Little Help }}
** Other instance: {{cite book |title=With a little help |url=https://archive.org/details/WithALittleHelp_201410 |year=2011 |publisher=CreateSpace |isbn=9781456576349}}
*{{cite book|title=Radicalized|title-link=Radicalized (Doctorow book)|date=19 March 2019|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-1-2502-2858-1}}

==== Short fiction ====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="width:25%;"|Title
! style="width:10%;"|Year
! style="width:25%;"|First published in
! style="width:40%;" class="unsortable"|Reprinted in
|-
|Craphound 
|1998
|''Science Fiction Age'', March 1998
|
* ''Northern Suns'' (Tor, 1999, David Hartwell and Glenn Grant, editors)
* ''Year's Best Science Fiction XVI'' (Morrow, 1999, Gardner Dozois, editor)
* ''Hayakawa Science Fiction Magazine'' (Japan) 2001
|-
|The Super Man and the Bugout
|1998
|DailyLit
|
|-
|Return to Pleasure Island
|2000
|''[https://craphound.com/fic/return.html Realms of Fantasy]''
|{{cite book |editor-last=Helgadottir |editor-first=Margrét |title=American Monsters Part 2 |year=2019 |publisher=Fox Spirit Books |isbn=978-1910462294}} 
|-
|0wnz0red
|2002
|?
|{{cite book |title=A Place So Foreign and Eight More |year=2003 |publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows |isbn=1568582862|title-link=A Place So Foreign and Eight More }} 
|-
|Truncat<ref>A quasi-sequel to ''Down and out in the Magic Kingdom''.</ref>
|2002
|?
|{{cite book |title=The Bakka anthology |year=2002 |publisher=Bakka Books |isbn=0973150831}} 
|-
|I, Row-Boat
|2006
|''[http://www.flurb.net/1/doctorow.htm Flurb: a webzine of astonishing tales]'' 1 (Fall 2006)
|{{cite book |title=Overclocked: stories of the future present |year=2007 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1560259817|title-link=Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present }} 
|-
|Scroogled
|2007
|''Radar'' (Sep 2007)
|{{cite book |title=With a Little help |year=2009 |publisher=Cor-Doc Co. |isbn=9780557943050|title-link=With a Little Help }}
|-
|The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
|2008
|[https://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ Tor.com]
|
|-
|When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
|2008
|??
|{{cite book |title=Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse |year=2008 |publisher=Night Shade Books |isbn=9781597801058|title-link=Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse }}
|-
|True names (with [[Benjamin Rosenbaum]])
|2008
|{{cite book |editor-last=Anders |editor-first=Lou |title=Fast forward 2 |year=2008 |publisher=Pyr |isbn=9781591026921 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/fastforward20002unse }}
|{{cite book |editor-last1=Kessel |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Kelly |editor-first2=James Patrick |title=Digital rapture: the singularity anthology |year=2012 |publisher=Tachyon |isbn=9781616960704}}
|-
|Chicken Little
|2009
|{{cite book |title=With a little help |year=2009 |publisher=Cor-Doc Co. |isbn=9780557943050|title-link=With a Little Help }}
|{{cite book |editor-last=Hull |editor-first=Elizabeth Anne |title=Gateways |year=2011 |publisher=Tor |isbn=9780765326621}}
|-
|There's a great big beautiful tomorrow / Now is the best time of your life
|2010
|{{cite book |author = Doctorow, C. | year=2010 | editor=Strahan, Jonathan |title=Godlike machines | publisher=Science Fiction Book Club |isbn=9781616647599}}
|{{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=C. |title=The great big beautiful tomorrow |year=2011 |publisher=PM Press |isbn=9781604864045 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatbigbeautifu00doct }}
|-
|Clockwork Fagin
|2011
|Grant, Gavin J. and Link, Kelly, eds. (2011). ''Steampunk!'' Candlewick Press. {{ISBN|9780763660451}}
|
|-
|Another Time, Another Place
|2011
|Van Allsburg (2011). ''The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales'' {{ISBN|0547548109}}
|
|-
|Lawful interception
|2013
|[http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception TOR.COM]
|
|-
|The Man Who Sold The Moon
|2014
|[https://boingboing.net/2015/05/22/the-man-who-sold-the-moon.html Boing Boing]
|
|-
|Car Wars
|2016
|[http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars Deakin University]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2016/11/23/car-wars-a-dystopian-science.html |title=Car Wars: a dystopian science fiction story about the nightmare of self-driving cars|first=Cory|last=Doctorow |work=Boing Boing |date=23 November 2016 |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222053147/http://boingboing.net/2016/11/23/car-wars-a-dystopian-science.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|-
|Party Discipline
|2017
|[https://www.tor.com/2017/08/30/party-discipline/ Tor.com]
|
|-
|The Canadian Miracle
|2023
|[https://reactormag.com/the-canadian-miracle-cory-doctorow/ Reactor Magazine]
|
|-
|Spill
|2024
|[https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/ Reactor Magazine]
|
|-
|Vigilant
|2024
|[https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/ Reactor Magazine]
|
|}

===Non-fiction===
* {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |last2=Schroeder |first2= Karl |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction |publisher=Alpha |date=2000 |isbn=0028639189|title-link=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction }}
* {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author2=Shelley Powers |author3=J. Scott Johnson |author4=Mena G. Trott |author5=Benjamin Trott |author6=Rael Dornfest |title=Essential blogging |publisher=O'Reilly |date=2002 |isbn=0596003889 |display-authors=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596003883 }}
* {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=Ebooks : neither E, nor books  |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11077 |publisher=Project Gutenberg |date=1 February 2004 |access-date=5 December 2014}} Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004.
* {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |editor-last=Yeffeth |editor-first=Glenn |title=The anthology at the end of the universe : leading science fiction authors on Douglas Adams' ''The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy'' |publisher=BenBella |date=2005 |chapter=Wikipedia : a genuine H2G2, minus the editors |isbn=9781932100563}}
* {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Content : selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future |url=https://archive.org/details/contentselectedes00doct |url-access=registration |publisher=Tachyon |date=2008 |isbn=9781892391810}}
* {{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=You can't own knowledge  |url=http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html |publisher=Freesouls |date=2010 |access-date=5 December 2014}}
* {{cite journal |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |date=Jan 2010 |title=Close enough for rock 'n' roll |journal=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |issue=588 |page=29}}
* {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Context : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st Century |publisher=Tachyon |date=2011 |isbn=9781616960483 |url=https://archive.org/details/context0000doct }}
* {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age |publisher= McSweeney's |date=2014 |isbn=9781940450285|title-link=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free}}
* {{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Demon-Haunted World |url=http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/09/cory-doctorow-demon-haunted-world/ |publisher=Locus Online |date=2 September 2017 }}
* {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism |url=https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907 |publisher=Medium Editions |date=21 January 2021 |isbn=9781736205907}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Giblin |first1=Rebecca |title=[[Chokepoint Capitalism]] |last2=Doctorow |first2=Cory |date=27 September 2022 |publisher=[[Beacon Press]] |isbn=978-080700706-8}}
* {{cite book |author-last=Doctorow|author-first=Cory | date= 2023 | title=[[The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation]] | publisher=Verso | isbn=978-1-80429-216-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It |url=https://bookshop.org/p/books/enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it-cory-doctorow/22123424 |publisher=MCD |date=7 October 2025 |isbn=9780374619329}}

===Anthology===
*''Tesseracts Eleven'' with Holly Phillips (2007)

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{Cite journal | last1 = Doctorow | first1 = C. | author-link1 = Cory Doctorow| title = Big data: Welcome to the petacentre | doi = 10.1038/455016a | journal = Nature | volume = 455 | issue = 7209 | pages = 16–21 | year = 2008 | pmid =  18769411| doi-access = free }}
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Laurie | first1 = B.| author-link1 = Ben Laurie | last2 = Doctorow | first2 = C. | author-link2 = Cory Doctorow| doi = 10.1038/491325a | title = Computing: Secure the Internet | journal = Nature | volume = 491 | issue = 7424 | pages = 325–326 | year = 2012 | pmid =  23151561| bibcode = 2012Natur.491..325L| s2cid = 4408297| doi-access = free }}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://craphound.com|Cory Doctorow}} – official site
* [https://pluralistic.net Pluralistic], daily links by Cory Doctorow
* {{Gutenberg author|id=3826|name=Cory Doctorow}}
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Cory Efram Doctorow}}
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo ''Information Doesn't Want to Be Free''], Cory Doctorow presentation at the CopyCamp 2014 conference

===Interviews===
* [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do "Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do"] 2022 interview at the [[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]
* [https://www.cyberpunks.com/interview-cory-doctorow-fights-for-the-internet 2019 interview with Doctorow] at Cyberpunks.com
* [https://thefreelunch.org/article/yester-year-has-fallen 2020 interview with Doctorow]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029235020/https://thefreelunch.org/article/yester-year-has-fallen|date=29 October 2020}} by [[Johannes Grenzfurthner]] in ''The Free Lunch'' magazine
* [https://sfss.space/short-interview-6-cory-doctorow 2022 interview with Doctorow] at sfss.space
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgkkQXVN-Ak Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do About it. The Majority Report, YouTube, October 6, 2025]

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