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Cory Doctorow

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Jul 21, 2025

How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook

This audiobook isn’t my usual crowdfunder!

The German edition of Red Team Blues as an ebook, an audiobook and a paperback.

Cory Doctorow

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Mar 4, 2025

There Were Always Enshittifiers

My March, 2025 Locus Magazine column.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 14, 2025

Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5)

Now we’re just haggling over the price.

A remix of the cover of the Tor Books edition of ‘Picks and Shovels,’ depicting a vector art vintage PC, whose blue screen includes a male figure stepping out of the picture to the right. Superimposed on the art is the book’s title in a custom, modernist font.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 11, 2025

Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3)

DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.

A remix of the cover of the Tor Books edition of ‘Picks and Shovels,’ depicting a vector art vintage PC, whose blue screen includes a male figure stepping out of the picture to the right. Superimposed on the art is the book’s title in a custom, modernist font.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 9, 2025

Chapter One of “Picks and Shovels” (Part 1)

My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley’s greatest forensic accountant.

A remix of the cover of the Tor Books edition of ‘Picks and Shovels,’ depicting a vector art vintage PC, whose blue screen includes a male figure stepping out of the picture to the right. Superimposed on the art is the book’s title in a custom, modernist font.

Cory Doctorow

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Apr 17, 2024

The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant

Blair Fix, Henry Farrell and Maria Farrell know more about Marty Hench than I do.

A portrait of William Gibson affably gazing straight into the camera, surrounded by darkness. It was been superimposed over a neon-glowing cyberpunk cityscape. In the background is a Matrix-style ‘code waterfall.’ Image: Frédéric Poirot (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629 CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 23, 2024

The Bezzle excerpt (Part VI)

The thrilling conclusion!

The cover of the Tor Books edition of *The Bezzle*: a yellow background with the words ‘Cory Doctorow,’ ‘The Bezzle,’ ‘New York Times Bestselling Author,’ and ‘A Martin Hench novel.’ Between them is an escheresque impossible triangle. The center of the triangle is a barred, smaller triangle (in blue, black and cream) that imprisons a silhouetted male figure in a suit. Two other male silhouettes in suits run alongside the top edges of the triangle.

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 22, 2024

The Bezzle excerpt (Part V)

Keep your hands at 10 and 2.

The Bezzle excerpt (Part V)

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 20, 2024

The Bezzle excerpt (Part III)

In which Steve Soul lawyers up.

The cover of the Tor Books edition of *The Bezzle*: a yellow background with the words ‘Cory Doctorow,’ ‘The Bezzle,’ ‘New York Times Bestselling Author,’ and ‘A Martin Hench novel.’ Between them is an escheresque impossible triangle. The center of the triangle is a barred, smaller triangle (in blue, black and cream) that imprisons a silhouetted male figure in a suit. Two other male silhouettes in suits run alongside the top edges of the triangle.

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 17, 2024

An excerpt from The Bezzle

A George Clinton/Leonard Cohen-inspired royalty-theft caper.

The cover of the Tor Books edition of *The Bezzle*: a yellow background with the words ‘Cory Doctorow,’ ‘The Bezzle,’ “New York Times Bestselling Author,’ and ‘A Martin Hench novel.’ Between them is an escheresque impossible triangle. The center of the triangle is a barred, smaller triangle (in blue, black and cream) that imprisons a silhouetted male figure in a suit. Two other male silhouettes in suits run alongside the top edges of the triangle.