Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a renowned Canadian author, known for his activism, journalism, and his work in science fiction. He is best known for writing the Little Brother series of books, which debuted in 2008 with the release of the first book in the series. The series was well-received and established Doctorow as a significant voice in young adult fiction.

In addition to the Little Brother series, Doctorow has written numerous standalone novels, short stories, and graphic novels. Some of his most popular works include Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and In Real Life, a young adult graphic novel. He has also written novels for adults, such as Rapture Of The Nerds and Makers. His most recent novel is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. In 2020, Doctorow was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Doctorow is also a prominent activist and journalist, advocating for issues related to digital rights, copyright, and civil liberties. He is a co-editor of Boing Boing, a group blog covering technology and culture, and a Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Doctorow is also a co-founder of the UK Open Rights Group. He was born in Toronto, Canada, and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Little Brother Books
# Title Year
1 Little Brother 2008
2 Homeland 2013
3 Lawful Interception 2013
4 Attack Surface 2020
Martin Hench Books
# Title Year
1 The Bezzle 2024
2 Red Team Blues 2023
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 2003
2 Eastern Standard Tribe 2004
3 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town 2005
4 With A Little Help 2007
5 Makers 2009
6 For the Win 2010
7 The Rapture of the Nerds 2012
8 Pirate Cinema 2012
9 Walkaway 2017
10 The Lost Cause 2023
Graphic Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now 2008
2 In Real Life 2014
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 I, Robot 2005
2 When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth 2006
3 The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away 2008
4 True Names 2008
5 Chicken Little 2011
6 After the Siege 2015
7 Anda's Game 2015
8 Party Discipline 2017
9 Poesy the Monster Slayer 2020
10 The Canadian Miracle 2023
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 A Place So Foreign and Eight More 2000
2 Overclocked 2007
3 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011
4 Radicalized 2019
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction 2000
2 Essential Blogging 2002
3 Content 2008
4 Ebooks 2010
5 Context 2011
6 All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites 2014
7 Information Doesn't Want to Be Free 2014
8 Chokepoint Capitalism 2022
9 The Internet Con 2023
Outspoken Authors Books
# Title Year
1 The Human Front 2001
2 The Left Left Behind 2009
3 Lucky Strike 2009
4 The Underbelly 2010
5 Mammoths of the Great Plains 2010
6 The Wild Girls 2011
7 Modem Times 2.0 2011
8 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011
9 Surfing the Gnarl 2012
10 Report from Planet Midnight 2012
11 The Science of Herself 2013
12 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials 2013
13 New Taboos 2013
14 Raising Hell 2014
15 My Life, My Body 2015
16 Gypsy 2015
17 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be 2016
18 Fire. 2017
19 Totalitopia 2017
20 The Atheist in the Attic 2018
21 Thoreau's Microscope 2018
22 The Beatrix Gates 2019
23 A City Made of Words 2019
In Real Life Books
# Title Year
1 En la vida real 2014
PM's Outspoken Authors Books (by with John Crowley)
# Title Year
1 The First Law of Thermodynamics 2021
2 The Collapsing Frontier 2024
Cory Doctorow Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Tesseracts 7 1998
2 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1999 1999
3 Starlight 3 2001
4 Tesseracts 8 2002
5 Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction 2003
6 New Voices In Science Fiction 2003
7 ReVisions 2004
8 The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005
9 Future Washington 2005
10 The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006
11 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007
12 Rewired 2007
13 Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction 2007
14 Fast Forward 2 2008
15 Year's Best SF 14 2009
16 Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download 2009
17 The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011
18 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 2011
19 Robots: The Recent A.I. 2012
20 Imaginarium 2012 2012
21 Future Games 2013
22 Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013
23 After the End 2013
24 Imaginarium 2013 2013
25 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 2013
26 Robot Uprisings 2014
27 Hieroglyph 2014
28 Imaginarium 4 2014
29 Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2015
30 Watchlist 2015
31 Press Start to Play 2015
32 Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance 2016
33 Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019 2019
34 American Monsters: Part 2 2019
35 Escape Pod 2020
36 Make Shift 2021