Get a signed event book!
If you would like a signed event book and will be unable to attend the event, please let us know in the comments
field of your order form when you place your order online. All orders for signed
books must be placed through our website at least 48 hours in advance of the
event. We can not guarantee signed copies - authors are sometimes unable to
sign books - but we will try our hardest to get you one.
|
Harvard Book Store Presents...
Tor Books
Price: $24.99
|
CORY DOCTOROW
reads from
Makers
Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome sci-fi novelist and technology activist CORY DOCTOROW as he reads from his new book, Makers. "Riffing off such voguish yet powerful ideas as micro-investment, post-industrial society and non-hierarchical organisation, [Makers is] a novel that looks to an era when the next generation of technology changes everything. Doctorow suggests real innovation will come from figures such as Perry and Lester, apparently peripheral inventors whose mercurial playfulness creates a new economic system, ‘New Work’. Cataloguing their adventures is a tech journalist, Suzanne, who finds herself forced to jump ship from the mainstream media, just one instance of the novel dramatising the tension between suits and creatives. It’s not a tale of overnight success. Instead, it takes a while for Perry and Lester’s ideas to truly penetrate the mainstream—and when they do achieve success it comes at a high cost. In a fable for all our tomorrows, Doctorow brilliantly shows us a near-future that’s equally wondrous, inspiring and terrifying." —BBC Focus Magazine
|
CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
Email:
|
| DATE: |
Monday, November 16th |
| TIME: |
7:00 PM |
| LOCATION: |
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
| TICKETS: |
This event is free; no tickets are required |
|
|
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger—the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the bestselling young adult novel Little Brother. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Photo Credit: Matt Locke
|
|
