The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Cory Doctorow burst on the SF scene in 2004 like a runaway rocket, inspiring awe in readers (and envy in other writers) with his bestselling novels and stories, which he insisted on giving away via Creative Commons. Meanwhile, as coeditor of the wildly popular blog Boing Boing, he became the radical new voice of the web, boldly arguing for Internet freedom from corporate control.

In this three-part volume, PM presents one of his best novellas, The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow; his address to the 2010 World SF Convention, "Copyright vs. Creativity;" and a final more personal interview, "Look for the Lake."

The title novella, The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, follows the high-velocity adventures of a transhuman teenager in a toxic Disney-dominated dystopia as he is forced to choose between immortality and sex.  In "Copyright vs. Creativity," Doctorow dramatically presents his strong and controversial case for open-source in both info and art.  Finally, in "Look for the Lake," Doctorow discusses the somewhat surprising sources of his genius, enthusiastically embraces his Inner Nerd, and reveals three secrets of his literary success.