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The Adventures of Mary Darling: A cracking read, a virtuoso act of gender jiu-jitsu, a Sherlock story like no other, a rough trip to fairyland, and the real, true story of Peter Pan. What a book!
Science fiction great Pat Murphy has written some classics - including books that were viciously suppressed by the heirs of JRR Tolkien! - but with *The Adventures of Mary Darling*, she's outdone even her own impressive self:
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STARRED REVIEW "Mary’s story is a dangerous and delightful adventure that turns the bigotry and misogyny of Victorian England on its head." —Library Journal Mary Darling is a pretty wife whose boring husband is befuddled by her independent ways.
To celebrate the release of Picks & Shovels by Cory Doctorow (the prequel to Red Team Blues) we’re rounding up some other book series that don't abide by chronology.
My friend Katherine Myronuk once told me, “All complex ecosystems have parasites.” She was talking about spam and malware (these days they’re often the same thing) and other undesirable critters on…
My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
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Blogger, journalist, author and activist Cory Doctorow can embark on a 10-minute monologue about what’s wrong with tech and still leave you hungering for more of his rapid-fire analysis and biting humor. It’s stunning to be presented with the big picture of the mess we’re in — and how to potentially get out of it.
In this episode of Dot Social, recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025, Doctorow unpacks the concept of “enshittification.” It’s a term he coined to show how we got to this place where platforms prioritize business interests over user experience, leading to tragic declines in quality and trust. He talks about how to challenge platform monopolies and the importance of true federation.
Highlights include:
01:52 The path to enshittification 12:50 Is there a way out of this? 17:18 How Cory uses RSS 22:20 Advice for people building the social web 28:07 Take on Bluesky and Mastodon 33:44 On being a “sharecropper in Musk’s farm” 36:05 EFF’s biggest mandate this year 39:04 What bad regulations are going away? 40:16 Is enshittification inevitable? 46:27 What happened to change the way that we enforce antitrust? 53:14 “Radicalized” and take on political violence 59:27 Cory’s book, “Picks and Shovels”
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Catch me in #PITTSBURGH at White Whale Books on May 15:
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and then in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
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White Whale Bookstore
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The Adventures of Mary Darling: A cracking read, a virtuoso act of gender jiu-jitsu, a Sherlock story like no other, a rough trip to fairyland, and the real, true story of Peter Pan. What a book!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11446163…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-06 15:40:14
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Locus Fundraiser 2025 indiegogo.com/at/locusmag2025 (includes personalized, signed copies of my books!)
* Out of Order Book Series! torforgeblog.com/2025/05/01/ou…
* Who Broke the Internet? app.magellan.ai/listen_links/c…
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Out of Order Book Series! - Tor/Forge Blog
Tiana Tolbert (Tor/Forge Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Space Needle to be converted to WiFi antenna web.archive.org/web/2005050611…
#20yrsago How tech could replace the US healthcare system web.archive.org/web/2005042701…
#20yrsago DRM and music research web.archive.org/web/2006010613…
#15yrsago How I got phished locusmag.com/2010/05/cory-doct…
#15yrsago Stross explains why he’s voting LibDem antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
#15yrsago HOWTO Tell a debt-collector to go to hell web.archive.org/web/2010050721…
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Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites
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#15yrsago Scholarly essay nails Gilligan’s Island’s hidden subtext web.archive.org/web/2010050802…
#15yrsago Canadian Prime Minister promises to enact a Canadian DMCA in six weeks web.archive.org/web/2010050820…
#10yrsago House Republicans hold hearing on politics in science, don’t invite any scientists science.org/content/article/ho…
#5yrsago Teen Vogue on socialist feminism pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
#5yrsago A federal jobs guarantee pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
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Here On The Island - by Lewis Napper - A Scholarly Critique of the Style, Symbolism and Sociopolitical Relevance of Gilligan's Island
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#5yrsago Pandemic profiteering could create social chaos pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
#5yrsago Leaked Trump doc projects 3000 US deaths/day pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
#5yrsago Negativland's "This is Not Normal" pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
#5yrsago What "writing rules" actually mean pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…
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Pluralistic: 05 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Bridget Read's 'Little Bosses Everywhere'; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-05-05 14:10:42
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
chevaliersbooks.com/product-pa…
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
booksoup.com/book/978180429124…
Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/
* Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley):
cwc-berkeley.org/writing-to-re…
* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
crowdsupply.com/teardown/portl…
* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
stores.barnesandnoble.com/even…
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White Whale Bookstore
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
howtoacademy.com/events/cory-d…
* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-…
* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
uk.coop/events-and-training/ev…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
How To AcademyCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It (Cloudfest)
youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bp…
* Move Fast and Break Kings
flipboard.video/w/2aH2AFNTPjcd…
* Beyond the Web (Ostrom Workshop)
youtube.com/watch?v=-WfO-9G4Eg…
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2025-04-24 21:42:39
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Pluralistic: The Adventures of Mary Darling (06 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #PITTSBURGH at White Whale Books on May 15:
whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
and then in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
martinhench.com
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White Whale Bookstore
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