[Plura-list] The grand conclusion of Someone Comes to Town

Mon Feb 8 09:43:02 EST 2021

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Tomorrow night, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version
of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream
event with Copperfield Books on Feb 9 at 19h Pacific.

https://eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowden-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-136734968973

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Today's links

* The grand conclusion of Someone Comes to Town: Part 31, the final
installment of my serialized novel podcast.

* This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016

* Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current
writing projects, current reading

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👨🏾‍✈️ The grand conclusion of Someone Comes to Town

Last April, I began a serialzed weekly reading of my 2006 novel "Someone
Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which Gene Wolfe called "a glorious
book unlike any book you’ve ever read."

https://craphound.com/category/someone/

Today - 31 installments later! - I finished reading the book.

https://craphound.com/news/2021/02/07/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-31-conclusion/

You can catch up on the other installments here:

https://craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22someone%20comes%22

and subscribe to my podcast feed here:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

Here's a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the Internet
Archive; they'll host your stuff for free, forever, too!):

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_377/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_377_-_Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_Town_031.mp3

There's also an official - far superior! - audiobook edition from
Blackstone audio, read by Bronson Pinchot. It's DRM-free, too:

https://www.downpour.com/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town

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👨🏾‍✈️ This day in history

#15yrsago Mosaic of favicons from around the Web
https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/96968793/

#15yrsago Difference Engine mechanical computer made from legos
https://web.archive.org/web/20060205044928/http://acarol.woz.org/

#15yrsago Kelly Link’s “Magic for Beginners” – knockout short story
collection
https://memex.craphound.com/2006/02/07/kelly-links-magic-for-beginners-knockout-short-story-collection/

#15yrsago Adbusters and the Economist have the same covers
http://pieratt.com/odds/adbusters_vs_theeconomist.jpg

#15yrsago Web 1.0 logo-mosaic
https://web.archive.org/web/20060216081719/http://www.complexify.com/buttons/

#10yrsago Hamster-powered strandbeest walker
https://crabfuartworks.blogspot.com/2011/02/hamster-powered-walker.html

#10yrsago UK Tories get majority of funding from bankers
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/feb/08/tory-funds-half-city-banks-financial-sector

#5yrsago How America’s presidents started cashing out
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/taxpayers-give-big-pensions-to-ex-presidents-precisely-so-they-dont-have-to-sell-out/

#5yrsago Usborne releases free PDFs of its classic 1980s computer
programming books
https://usborne.com/us/books/browse-by-category/science-and-technology/computers-and-coding

#5yrsago Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence of Cyberspace
https://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence/

#5yrsago Indian regulator stands up for net neutrality, bans Facebook’s
walled garden
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/facebooks-free-internet-app-banned-by-indias-new-net-neutrality-rule/

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👨🏾‍✈️ Colophon

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

* My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and
reconciliation. Friday's progress: 500 words (107753 total).

* A short story, "Jeffty is Five," for The Last Dangerous Visions.
Friday's progress: 301 words (3747 total).

Currently reading: Analogia by George Dyson.

Latest podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)
https://craphound.com/articles/2021/01/31/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-30/

Upcoming appearances:

* Talking Attack Surface with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence, Feb 9,
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reboot-attack-surface-ft-cory-doctorow-registration-139596814831

* Launch for the young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir
PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9,
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowden-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-136734968973

* Boskone, 58, Feb 12-15, https://boskone.org/

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22,
https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/

*  Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: Social
Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media (with Zeynep Tufekci), Feb
24, https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I99f4x8WRiKCfKUljVcYPg

* World Ethical Data Forum keynote, Mar 17-19,
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2020

* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21,
https://fitc.ca/presentation/interop/

Recent appearances:

* Chop Shop Economics
https://soundcloud.com/chopshopeconomics/unlocked-special-episode-9-cory-doctorow/s-VzUA5S25But

* Monocle Reads
https://monocle.com/radio/shows/meet-the-writers/monocle-reads-87/play/

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
https://play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgingbetsonthefuturewithauthorcorydoctorow

Latest book:

* "Attack Surface": The third Little Brother novel, a standalone
technothriller for adults. The *Washington Post* called it "a political
cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution
and resistance." Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

* "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": an anti-monopoly pamphlet
analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a
solution.
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
(print edition:
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907)

* "Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new
introduction by Edward Snowden:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies
here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html

* "Poesy the Monster Slayer" a picture book about monsters, bedtime,
gender, and kicking ass. Order here:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed
copy here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1562/_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer.html.

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