An Evening with Cory Doctorow
Monday May 08 2017 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
Discussing & Signing Walkaway (Tor Books).
Cory Doctorow’s first adult novel in eight years, Walkaway, is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. In a future where anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter - from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.
It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down.
Cory Doctorow has held policy positions with Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Southern California. He is a co-editor of the popular weblog BoingBoing, which receives over three million visitors a month, and a columnist for the Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Locus. His science fiction has won numerous awards, and his YA novel Little Brother spent seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.
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