Canadian science fiction author, blogger and general copyright activist Cory Doctorow has today launched his latest book, Makers, receiving a mixed reception to the work.
The book – which has been being serialised chapter by chapter on Tor.com for some time, will now available more widely in bookstores. And due to Doctorow’s adoption of various Creative Commons licences for his work, you can download the book completely for free from his website.
Doctorow has written a number of critically applauded science fiction novels – most recently Little Brother in 2008, but also Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in 2005, Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003).
In Makers, Doctorow mashes up hacker culture – of the kind that sees zany inventors build amazing things out of junk in their garage – with the economic boom and bust cycle that has the Western world is so familiar with, courtesy of the dot-com bubble and the recent global financial crisis. From Doctorow’s web site, the blurb:
