Cory Doctorow

AI Won’t Replace Jobs, but Tech Bros Want You to Be Afraid It Will

He also thinks the AI bubble burst is going to make 2008 feel like "a golden age."

‘Wi-Fi’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

Wi-Fi was coined in 1999 by the same marketing company that came up with the name Prozac.

Make Books Your Valentine With February’s New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Releases

New releases from Malka Older, T. Kingfisher, Kelly Link, Martha Wells, Cory Doctorow, George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards , and more.

44 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your November Reading List

Get ready for shorter days and colder nights with new releases from Martha Wells, Patrick Rothfuss, Jim Butcher, Nnedi Okorafor, and more.

Here’s When Gizmodo First Wrote About (Almost) Every Important Thing In Tech

We've been covering tech for 20 years, and we were early to every major innovation... right?

November Is Full of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Help You Make It Through 2020’s Home Stretch

Seems like just yesterday we were all adjusting to the concept of “lockdown,” but it’s now become a full-on lifestyle. Fortunately, the output of new sci-fi and fantasy books is one thing that hasn’t slowed down—and November is full of adventures in deep space, chaotic kingdoms, other dimensions, and beyond. Spellbreaker by Charlie Holmberg A…

The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame

Welcome to the big day: The launch of System Reboot, Gizmodo’s new podcast on how to repair a broken world. There’s no better place to start our mission to fix the world than the internet. We rely on the tubes and wires more than ever due to the pandemic that has us working from home,…

Don’t Be Afraid of All the New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Coming in October

There is one book on this list involving a giant, hungry, ancient spider, so you actually might want to be afraid of that one. But in a good way! It’s Halloween season, and though this list isn’t only scary stories, it offers plenty in the way of fantastical escapes both perilous and wondrous, sometimes at…

39 Amazing New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Check Out in March

March is here—damn, that was fast!—and with it, a stack of new sci-fi and fantasy books to add to your reading list, including entries from genre favorites like Cory Doctorow and G. Willow Wilson, plus a new Expanse novel, Tiamat’s Wrath, that was originally supposed to come out in 2018 but is finally on its…

Cory Doctorow, Claire North, and Sylvain Neuvel Will Seek to Depress Us Beyond Words With the Black Mirror Book

Black Mirror is bringing its brand of haunting dystopian storytelling away from the television screen and into the realm of books—and now we know the authors who will help bring Charlie Brooker’s weird, often morbid world to the page. Penguin Random House has announced the three writers for Black Mirror Volume 1: A Literary Season,…

Help the EFF Save the Future, by Reading Some Brand New Science Fiction!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the digital world generally. And now, you can help support them—by reading a brand new science fiction book! The EFF just published a new book Pwning Tomorrow, featuring short fiction by Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Cory Doctorow, Annalee…

The Essential Cyberpunk Reading List

It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read. The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester This 1956 novel,…

Could Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother Become The Next Hunger Games? 

Hollywood’s appetite for YA dystopian thrillers isn’t dying down anytime soon. According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures has picked up Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for a potential franchise. The novel, released in 2008, follows 17-year-old Markus (also known as w1n5t0n), he he and his friends are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in…

Comics vending machine. Just put in three pounds, fill out the form, and wait 30 minutes. Boom! Brand new comic book. Spotted at the East London Comic Arts Festival in Hackney by Cory Doctorow/Flickr.

io9 Newsstand: Best Stories of the Week for November 17 – 22

This week Vice announced their new SFF magazine, Terraform. As mentioned previously in this column, new ‘zines are always coming along and this is good news most of the time. However, Terraform’s birth was not the occasion for celebration, but a throwdown. The mission statement/announcement starts out making some interesting assertions, such as: “…weirdly, there’s…

This Is How Artists Make Their Livings In The Internet Age

Cory Doctorow joined us today to answer questions about how creative work and copyright work in the digital age. Among them was a particular interestingly question in an increasingly gig-dependent economy: Can artists still make a living from their art? And, if so, how? Top image: Cory Doctorow Portrait by Jonathan Worth It’s always been…

Cory Doctorow Is Here To Take Questions About Copyright And Creativity

What does creative success look like online today? Cory Doctorow is here to answer your questions about the state of copyright, the tangled possibilities of creative work on the internet, and just what the future might hold for them both. Doctorow’s new book Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free: Laws For The Internet Age takes…

Vice Magazine Just Started Publishing Science Fiction Online

Another new science fiction magazine has just joined the internet. Vice Magazine, which was already writing about science fiction via its excellent Motherboard site, has launched a SF mag called Terraform, with stories by Cory Doctorow and Bruce Sterling. But the interesting part is, they want to see more fiction go viral. Terraform will post…

Cory Doctorow’s Story Of Girl Gamers Is More Important Than Ever

In Real Life, the new comic out from Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang, is an adaptation of Doctorow’s 2004 story “Anda’s Game.” Ten years later, this tale of a young female gamer learning about wider social issues through a MMORPG still holds a valuable message for gamers (and non-gamers) of all ages. “Anda’s Game” is…

Gorgeous Book Trailer For Cory Doctorow And Jen Wang’s In Real Life

Cory Doctorow’s gamer-girl graphic novel In Real Life, created with artist Jen Wang, comes out next week — but we’ve got the official book trailer right here, right now. Including some amazing artwork, and a glimpse at Doctorow’s shiny fictional MMO. Here’s the official synopsis for In Real Life: Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer…