Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 17 July 1971.{{Cite web|date=17 July 2013|title=Literary Birthday – 17 July – Cory Doctorow|url=https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|access-date=22 October 2020|website=Writers Write|language=en-GB|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024062750/https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-17-july-cory-doctorow/|url-status=live}} He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a12634/what-my-father-taught-me-cory-doctorow-15526233/|access-date=10 May 2021|title=What My Father Taught Me: Cory Doctorow|website=Popular Mechanics|date=28 May 2013|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143315/https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a12634/what-my-father-taught-me-cory-doctorow-15526233/|url-status=live}} His paternal grandfather was born in what is now Poland and his paternal grandmother was from Leningrad, Russia. Both fled Nazi Germany's advance eastward during World War II, and as a result Doctorow's father was born in a displaced persons camp near Baku, Azerbaijan.{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|url=http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/azeri-donkey-video-b.html|title=Azeri "donkey video" bloggers arrested|date=2 September 2009|access-date=2 September 2009|archive-date=5 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905051959/http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/azeri-donkey-video-b.html|url-status=live}} His grandparents and father emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union.{{cite web |last1=Jacobsen |first1=Scott Douglas |title=An Interview with Cory Efram Doctorow (Part One) |url=https://in-sightjournal.com/2018/07/08/doctorow-one/ |website=In-Sight Publishing |date=9 July 2018 |access-date=29 June 2020 |archive-date=30 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630141442/https://in-sightjournal.com/2018/07/08/doctorow-one/ |url-status=live }} Doctorow's mother's family were Ukrainian-Russian Romanians.

Doctorow is a friend of Columbia law professor Tim Wu, dating to their time together to elementary school.{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/toronto-superstar-academic-who-coined-net-neutrality-could-be-nominee-for-n-y-lieutenant-governor |title=Toronto superstar academic who coined 'net-neutrality' could be nominee for N.Y. lieutenant-governor |newspaper=National Post |date=6 September 2014 |first=Richard |last=Warnica |access-date=2024-11-10 |archive-date=2024-11-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110150025/https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/toronto-superstar-academic-who-coined-net-neutrality-could-be-nominee-for-n-y-lieutenant-governor |url-status=live}} Doctorow went to summer camp as a young teenager at what he has described as a "hippy summer camp" at Grindstone Island, near Portland, Ontario, that was influential on his intellectual life and development.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/features/sense-of-place/sense-of-place:-cory-doctorow,-grindstone-island,-ontario/9478254|title=Sense of Place: Cory Doctorow, Grindstone Island, Ontario|date=23 February 2018|website=Radio National|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-date=25 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925193732/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/features/sense-of-place/sense-of-place:-cory-doctorow,-grindstone-island,-ontario/9478254|url-status=live}} He quit high school,{{Citation |author = Doctorow, C.| date = 2010 | chapter = There's a great big beautiful tomorrow / Now is the best time of your life | editor=Strahan, Jonathan |editor-link=Jonathan Strahan |title=Godlike Machines |publisher=Science Fiction Book Club |location =Garden City, New York | page = 167 | isbn=9781616647599 }} received his Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the SEED School in Toronto,{{cite web|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|date=July 3, 2023|title=Commentary by Cory Doctorow: SF Doesn't Predict, It Contests|url=https://locusmag.com/2023/07/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-sf-doesnt-predict-it-contests/|work=Locus|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=13 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913233340/https://locusmag.com/2023/07/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-sf-doesnt-predict-it-contests/|url-status=live}} and attended four universities without obtaining a degree.{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Graduation certificate from Mom and Dad |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/49871683232/in/datetaken/ |website=Flickr.com |date=8 May 2020 |publisher=Self-published by subject |access-date=18 May 2020 |quote=Graduation certificate from Mom and Dad. I finally graduated from high school (after 7 years!) in 1991. My parents were so relieved they made me this (which my Mom just found while doing some lock-in organizing and sent to me). Love their optimism! I dropped out of four universities after this and never got a degree. |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801142246/https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/49871683232/in/datetaken/ |url-status=live }}

Cory Doctorow has stated both that he is not related to the American novelist E. L. Doctorow,{{cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/rip-el-doctorow.html|title=RIP, EL Doctorow|date=22 July 2015|access-date=24 September 2019|archive-date=4 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704170034/https://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/rip-el-doctorow.html|url-status=live}} and that he may be a third cousin once removed of the novelist.{{cite web|url=https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Cory_Doctorow_related_to_author_EL_Doctorow|title=Is Cory Doctorow related to author EL Doctorow?|website=Answers.com|date=23 December 2012|access-date=16 July 2021|archive-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716113518/https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Cory_Doctorow_related_to_author_EL_Doctorow|url-status=live}} Thomas Rankin in Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works (2007) describes Doctorow as "a distant cousin of author E.L. Doctorow".Rankin, Thomas. (January 2007). "Cory Doctorow". Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works. Salem Press. p. 1. Ebsco.

In June 1999, Doctorow co-founded the free software P2P company Opencola{{Cite web |last=Heltze |first=Paul |date=9 April 2001 |title=OpenCola-Have Some Code and a Smile |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2001/04/09/235916/opencola-have-some-code-and-a-smile/ |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en |archive-date=5 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405195432/https://www.technologyreview.com/2001/04/09/235916/opencola-have-some-code-and-a-smile/ |url-status=live }} with John Henson and Grad Conn, which was sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, in the summer of 2003. The company used a drink called OpenCola as part of its promotional campaign.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/trade-secrets-open-source-cola|title=Open source cola and the 'Napster moment' for the food business|magazine=Wired|date=13 April 2013|author=Steadman, Ian|access-date=13 February 2019|quote=It's called Open Cola, a product first produced by now-defunct Toronto software company Opencola as something of a joke. Taking inspiration from Richard Stallman's famous dictum that free software was "free as in speech, not as in beer", it was meant as a kind of promotional tool. The recipe was published online for anyone to take and adapt. Version 1.0 was published on 27 January 2001 – the latest version is 1.1.3. Opencola closed in 2003, but Open Cola's recipe is still around.|archive-date=13 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213183705/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/trade-secrets-open-source-cola|url-status=live}}

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Doctorow later relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for four years, helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006; Doctorow remained a Fellow of the EFF for some time after his departure from the EFF Staff.As of 24 September 2019, the name Doctorow no longer appears in search results for uscpublicdiplomacy.com. He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission,{{cite web |author = Fulbright-Canada Staff | url=http://www.fulbright.ca/en/pdf/2006_Award_Recipients_Eng.pdf |title=2006 Award Recipients |access-date=2 September 2008 |work=Royal Fulbright Commission web site |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229090257/http://www.fulbright.ca/en/pdf/2006_Award_Recipients_Eng.pdf |archive-date=29 February 2008 |url-status=dead

}} the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States.{{cite journal|url = http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i31/31a03001.htm|title = A Blogger Infiltrates Academe|access-date = 9 February 2008|author = Read, Brock|date = 6 April 2007|journal = Chronicle of Higher Education|volume = 53|number = 31|page = A30|archive-date = 9 July 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080709004351/http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i31/31a03001.htm|url-status = live}} He then returned to London, but remained a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.

In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.{{cite web|title=University of Waterloo: Scholar in Virtual Residence|url=http://is.uwaterloo.ca/staff_archive.htm|publisher=University of Waterloo|access-date=8 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707204253/http://is.uwaterloo.ca/staff_archive.htm|archive-date=7 July 2012}} He was a student in the program during 1993–94, but left without completing a thesis. Doctorow was also a visiting professor at the Open University in the United Kingdom from September 2009 to August 2010. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University.{{cite web|title=Conferment of Honorary Degrees and Presentation of Graduates|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Graduate-Directory-2012-WEB.pdf|publisher=www.open.ac.uk|access-date=13 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221235231/http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Graduate-Directory-2012-WEB.pdf|archive-date=21 February 2014}}

Doctorow married Alice Taylor in October 2008;{{cite web|author = Doctorow, C.|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/little-brother-uk-ed.html|title = Little Brother UK edition signed!|access-date = 27 October 2008|date = 27 October 2008|work = BoingBoing|archive-date = 27 October 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081027214646/http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/little-brother-uk-ed.html|url-status = live}} they have a daughter named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born in 2008.{{cite web|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/03/fine-news.html|title = Fine News|access-date = 9 February 2008|author = Doctorow, C.|date = 3 February 2008|publisher = BoingBoing|archive-date = 10 February 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080210095608/http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/03/fine-news.html|url-status = live}} Doctorow became a British citizen by naturalisation on 12 August 2011.{{Citation |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=UK Citizenship Certificate, Cory Doctorow (redacted).tif |date=12 August 2011 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/6034751827/ |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728165520/https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/6034751827/ |url-status=live }}

In 2015, Doctorow decided to leave London and move to Los Angeles, expressing disappointment at London's "death" after Britain's choice of Conservative government; he stated at the time, "London is a city whose two priorities are being a playground for corrupt global elites who turn neighbourhoods into soulless collections of empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, and encouraging the feckless criminality of the finance industry. These two facts are not unrelated."{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|date=29 June 2015|url=http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html|title=Why I'm leaving London|publisher=BoingBoing|access-date=30 June 2015|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630011338/http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html|url-status=live}} He rejoined the EFF in January 2015 to campaign for the eradication of digital rights management (DRM).{{cite web|title=Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM everywhere|url=https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff-eradicate-drm-everywhere|website=EFF.org|publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|access-date=31 October 2016|date=20 January 2015|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911095405/https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff-eradicate-drm-everywhere|url-status=live}}

Doctorow left Boing Boing in January 2020, and soon started a solo blogging project titled Pluralistic.{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=20 years a blogger |url=https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/640203818282434560/20-years-a-blogger |website=Mostly Signs (Some Portents) |access-date=14 January 2021 |date=13 January 2021 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115091751/https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/640203818282434560/20-years-a-blogger |url-status=live }} The circumstances surrounding Doctorow's exit from the website were unclear at the time, although Doctorow acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of Boing Boing.{{cite web |title=In the blog world, this is the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up |url=https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-the-equivalent-of-the-Beatles-breaking-up |website=MetaFilter |access-date=14 January 2021 |date=30 March 2020 |archive-date=15 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115120912/https://www.metafilter.com/186302/In-the-blog-world-this-is-the-equivalent-of-the-Beatles-breaking-up |url-status=live }} Given the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and Boing Boing, MetaFilter described this news as "the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up" for the blog world. Doctorow's exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020.{{cite web |title=Boing Boing: Wayback Machine snapshot as of 30 January 2020 |url=http://boingboing.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130012547/http://boingboing.net |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 January 2020 |date=30 January 2020 |quote=Doctorow's name appears as an editor on the Wayback Machine's 2020-01-29 10:09:04 Boing Boing snapshot, but it does not appear on the 2020-01-30 01:25:47 snapshot}}

Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999.

In 2007, together with Austrian art group monochrom, he initiated the Instant Blitz Copy Fight project, which asks people from all over the world to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.{{cite web|url=http://www.monochrom.at/piracy/|title=piracy messages|website=www.monochrom.at|access-date=24 January 2006|archive-date=14 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114192212/http://www.monochrom.at/piracy/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://netzpolitik.org/2007/instant-blitz-copy-fight-project/|title=Instant Blitz Copy Fight Project|date=22 May 2007|access-date=8 April 2016|archive-date=17 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217023554/https://netzpolitik.org/2007/instant-blitz-copy-fight-project/|url-status=live}}

On 31 October 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning digital rights management with Sony-BMG, as told in Wikinomics, a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.{{cite book |last=Tapscott |first=Dan |author2=Williams, Anthony D. |title=Wikinomics |year=2006 |publisher=Portfolio/Penguin Books |isbn=978-1-59184-138-8 |pages=34–37 |url=https://archive.org/details/wikinomicshowmas00taps/page/34 |url-access=registration }}

As a user of the Tor anonymity network for more than a decade during his global travels, Doctorow publicly supports the network; furthermore, Boing Boing operates a "high speed, high-quality exit node."{{cite web|url=https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-cory-doctorow|title=This is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Cory Doctorow|publisher=The Tor Blog|access-date=28 December 2015|archive-date=16 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616210816/https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-cory-doctorow|url-status=live}}

Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the July 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference.{{cite news|url=https://xi.hope.net/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-the-eleventh-hope/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317030857/https://xi.hope.net/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-the-eleventh-hope/|archive-date=17 March 2016|title=Cory Doctorow to Keynote at The Eleventh HOPE | The Eleventh HOPE|newspaper=The Eleventh Hope |date=17 March 2016}} He also presented on enshittification at the 2024 conference, HOPE XV.{{cite web|url=https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/speaker/HHK9UM/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714202717/https://schedule.hope.net/hopexv/speaker/HHK9UM/|archive-date=14 July 2024|title=Cory Doctorow :: HOPE XV :: pretalx|date=14 July 2024}}

Doctorow was appointed as an A.D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University from 2024-2030.{{Cite web |title=Science fiction novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow appointed as A.D. White Professor-at-Large – Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large Program |url=https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/announcements/internationally-renowned-science-fiction-novelist-and-technology-activist-cory-doctorow-appointed-as-a-d-white-professor-at-large/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu}}

He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.{{Cite tweet |author=Cory Doctorow |user=doctorow |number=1454158218117197826 |title=Uhhhhhh. I am a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. I was raised by Trotskyists. This is, as the physicists say, "not even wrong." }}

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Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old, and sold several stories, followed by publication of the story "Craphound" in 1998.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Doctorow's first novel, was published in January 2003, and was the first novel released under one of the Creative Commons licences, allowing readers to circulate the electronic edition as long as they neither made money from it nor used it to create derived works.{{Cite news |date=13 March 2011 |title=Cory Doctorow: How free translates to business survival |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12701664 |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728165321/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12701664 |url-status=live }} The electronic edition was released simultaneously with the print edition. In February 2004, it was re-released with a different Creative Commons license that allowed derivative works such as fan fiction, but still prohibited commercial usage.{{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |date=2003 |publisher=Tor Books |isbn=0765304368 |page=3 |url=https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.pdf |access-date=19 August 2022 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201061211/https://craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.pdf |url-status=live }}

Down and Out... was nominated for a Nebula Award,{{cite web |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_nebula_index.asp |title=The Nebula Award Listing; Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=17 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017085104/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_Nebula_index.asp |url-status=live }} and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2004.{{cite web |title=2004 Locus Awards |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2004.html#nvl1 |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=17 June 2014 |date=3 September 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301140908/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2004.html#nvl1 |archive-date=1 March 2007 }} A semi-sequel short story named Truncat was published on Salon.com in August 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2003/08/26/truncat/ |title=Truncat |date=27 August 2003 |author=Cory Doctorow |work=Salon |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-date=10 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010074250/http://www.salon.com/2003/08/26/truncat/ |url-status=live }}

His novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, published in June 2005, was chosen to launch the Sci-Fi Channel's book club, Sci-Fi Essentials (now defunct).

Doctorow's other novels have been released with Creative Commons licences that allow derived works and prohibit commercial usage, and he has used the model of making digital versions available, without charge, at the same time that print versions are published.

His Sunburst Award-winning short-story collection{{cite web |title=2004 Sunburst Award Winner |url=http://www.sunburstaward.org/2004_winner.html |website=www.sunburstaward.org |publisher=The Sunburst Award Society |access-date=17 June 2014 |date=1 September 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232838/http://www.sunburstaward.org/2004_winner.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 }} A Place So Foreign and Eight More was also published in 2004: "0wnz0red" from this collection was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula2004.html |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |title=2004 Nebula Awards |date=17 April 2004 |publisher=Locusmag.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713224755/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula2004.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 }}

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Doctorow released the bestselling novel Little Brother in 2008 with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence.{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2008/04/28/little-brother-the-remixable-drm-free-audiobook/ |title=Little Brother Blog |publisher=Craphound.com |date=28 April 2008 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518100956/http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2008/04/28/little-brother-the-remixable-drm-free-audiobook/ |url-status=live }} It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2009,{{cite web |website=www.anticipation.sf.ca |url=http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos |title=AnticipationSF Hugo Nominees: Best Novel |date=31 January 2010 |publisher=Anticipation: The 67th World Science Fiction Convention |access-date=17 June 2014 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606013027/http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos |url-status=live }} and won the 2009 Prometheus Award,{{cite web |url=http://lfs.org/releases.htm |title=Libertarian Futurist Society |publisher=Lfs.org |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=27 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327144557/http://www.lfs.org/releases.htm |url-status=live }} Sunburst Award,{{cite web |url=http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2009-winners |title=2009 Winners: The Sunburst Awards |publisher=The Sunburst Award Society |date=28 September 2009 |website=www.sunburstaward.org |access-date=30 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202043522/http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2009-winners |archive-date=2 December 2012 }} and the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.{{cite web |title=2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Cmem2009.html#w |publisher=Locus-Locus Publications |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017224630/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Cmem2009.html#w |archive-date=17 October 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=17 June 2014 |date= 7–12 July 2009 }}

His novel Makers was released in October 2009, and was serialised for free on the Tor Books website.{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=35734 |title=Cory Doctorow's Makers; Blog posts |publisher=Tor.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=11 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711210107/http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=35734 |url-status=live }}

Doctorow released another young adult novel, For the Win, in May 2010. The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper format by Tor Books. The book is about "greenfarming", and concerns massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

Doctorow's short-story collection With a Little Help was released in printed format on 3 May 2011. It is a project to demonstrate the profitability of Doctorow's method of releasing his books in print and subsequently for free under Creative Commons.{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/walh/ |title=Post publication progress report for "With a Little Help" |publisher=Craphound.com |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=27 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927185609/http://craphound.com/walh/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/15883-doctorow-s-project-with-a-little-help.html |work=Publishers Weekly |author=Cory Doctorow |title=Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help |date=19 October 2009 |access-date=6 May 2011 |archive-date=15 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515042044/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/15883-doctorow-s-project-with-a-little-help.html |url-status=live }}

In September 2012, Doctorow released The Rapture of the Nerds, a novel written in collaboration with Charles Stross.{{cite web |author=Upcoming4.me |url=http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/9434-cory-doctorow,-charles-stross-rapture-of-the-nerds-cover-art-and-summary-reveal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718123324/http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/9434-cory-doctorow,-charles-stross-rapture-of-the-nerds-cover-art-and-summary-reveal |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |title=Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross' Rapture of The Nerds cover art and summary reveal |publisher=Upcoming4.me |access-date=31 May 2012 }}

Doctorow's young adult novel Pirate Cinema was released in October 2012. It won the 2013 Prometheus Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.lfs.org/releases/2013Winners.shtml |title=2013 Prometheus Winners Announced |publisher=Libertarian Futurist Society |date=20 July 2012 |website=www.lfs.org |access-date=7 February 2014 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233753/http://www.lfs.org/releases/2013Winners.shtml |url-status=live }}

In February 2013, Doctorow released Homeland, the sequel to his novel Little Brother.{{cite web |url=http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2012/06/20/cover-for-homeland-the-sequel-to-little-brother/ |title=Cover for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother |website=Craphound.com |date=20 June 2012 |access-date=6 December 2012 |archive-date=18 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818164444/http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2012/06/20/cover-for-homeland-the-sequel-to-little-brother/ |url-status=live }} It won the 2014 Prometheus Award (Doctorow's third novel to win this award).

His novel Walkaway was released in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/author_cory_doctorow_to_speak_at_uc_san_diego_on_scarcity_abundance_and_the|title=Author Cory Doctorow to Speak at UC San Diego on Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529233017/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/author_cory_doctorow_to_speak_at_uc_san_diego_on_scarcity_abundance_and_the|url-status=live}}

In March 2019, Doctorow released Radicalized, a collection of four self-contained science-fiction novellas dealing with how life in America could be in the near future.{{cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2019/01/16/book-announcements-radicalized-cory-doctorow/|title=Revealing Radicalized, A New Book From Cory Doctorow|access-date=27 March 2019|date=16 January 2019|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327225845/https://www.tor.com/2019/01/16/book-announcements-radicalized-cory-doctorow/|url-status=live}} The book was selected for the 2020 edition of Canada Reads, in which it was defended by Akil Augustine.[https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2020-contenders-1.5433115 "Meet the Canada Reads 2020 contenders"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209094051/https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2020-contenders-1.5433115 |date=9 February 2020 }}. CBC Books, 22 January 2020.

Attack Surface, a standalone adult novel set in the "Little Brother" universe, was released on 13 October 2020.{{Cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531 |title=Attack Surface |access-date=16 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618045710/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531 |url-status=live }}{{Cite magazine|title=His Writing Radicalized Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them|language=en-us|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wants-to-redeem-them/|access-date=22 October 2020|issn=1059-1028|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023010319/https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wants-to-redeem-them/|url-status=live}}

His novel called Red Team Blues, a financial thriller about cybersecurity, was released in April 2023. It features a character named Martin Hench.{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Thom |title=Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: a refreshingly hopeful finance thriller about cryptocurrency |url=https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/cory-doctorows-red-team-blues-a-refreshingly-hopeful-finance-thriller-about-cryptocurrency.html |website=Boing Boing |date=27 April 2023 |access-date=1 May 2023 |archive-date=30 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430095620/https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/cory-doctorows-red-team-blues-a-refreshingly-hopeful-finance-thriller-about-cryptocurrency.html |url-status=live }}

Standalone hopepunk novel The Lost Cause, set in 2050s California about mitigating and surviving climate change impacts amidst the legacy of contemporary political divisions, was published in November 2023.{{Cite web |access-date=15 October 2024 |title=The Lost Cause |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/thelostcause}}

{{Anchor|bezzle}}A second novel featuring forensic accountant Martin Hench was published in February 2024: The Bezzle is centered around the financial (mis-)management of privately owned prisons.{{Cite web |access-date=15 October 2024 |title=The Bezzle |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle}}

A third Martin Hench novel, Picks and Shovels, was published by Tor Books in February, 2025: the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.{{cite web |title=Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels/ |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |access-date=10 March 2025}}

Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (co-written with Karl Schroeder and published in 2000),{{cite news|last=Lilley|first=Ernest|date=2001|title=Review|issue=1|volume=1|url=https://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2001/0101/9981%20Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF/Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF.htm|publisher=SFRevu|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=22 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622113846/http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2001/0101/9981%20Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF/Idiots%20Guide%20to%20Publishing%20SF.htm|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Spence|first=Ewan|date=November 18, 2004|url=http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Cory_Doctorow_the_EFF_Interview.php|publisher=AAS: All About Symbian|title=Cory Doctorow (the EFF) Interview|access-date=October 29, 2023|archive-date=20 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620021617/http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Cory_Doctorow_the_EFF_Interview.php|url-status=live}} his contributions to Boing Boing, the blog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in the magazines Popular Science and Make. He is a contributing writer to Wired magazine, and contributes occasionally to other magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, and the Boston Globe.

In 2004, he wrote an essay on Wikipedia included in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, comparing Internet attempts at Hitchhiker's Guide-type resources, including a discussion of the Wikipedia article about himself.{{cite book | editor-last=Yeffeth | editor-first=Glenn | title=The Anthology At The End Of The Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors On Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | publisher=BenBella Books | publication-place=Dallas, Tex | date=2005-03-11 | isbn=1-932100-56-3 | oclc=57514685}} Doctorow contributed the foreword to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. He also was a contributing writer to the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.{{cite web|author=Doctorow, C.|display-authors=etal|url=http://boingboing.net/2006/10/24/worldchanging-users.html|title=WorldChanging: User's guide for the 21st Century|date=24 October 2006|access-date=11 September 2012|archive-date=26 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526200121/http://boingboing.net/2006/10/24/worldchanging-users.html|url-status=live}}

He popularised the term "metacrap" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia."{{cite web |url=http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm |title=Metacrap |publisher=Well.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=8 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508200721/http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm |url-status=live }} Some of his nonfiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by Tachyon Publications as Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. In 2016, he wrote the article Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker (published on MIT Technology Review) as a review of the TV show Mr. Robot and argued for a better portrayal and understanding of technology, computers and their risks and consequences in our modern world.{{cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/|title=Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|date=7 December 2016|website=MIT Technology Review|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109023222/https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603045/mr-robot-killed-the-hollywood-hacker/|url-status=live}}

His essay "You Can't Own Knowledge" is included in the Freesouls book project.{{cite web|url=http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html|title=Freesouls – You Can't Own Knowledge|first=Cory|last=Doctorow|access-date=19 September 2012|archive-date=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826033843/http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html|url-status=live}}

He is the originator of Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit."{{cite web

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Writing in The Guardian in 2022, Doctorow listed the many problems confronting Facebook and suggested that its future would be increasingly fraught.{{cite news

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File:Cory Doctorow and Konstantine Anthony, WGAW Picket, Warner Brothers, Burbank, California, USA.jpg Konstantine Anthony, picketing in support of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike]]

Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalised to allow for free sharing of all digital media. He has also advocated filesharing.{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/12/steal-this-file-shar.html |title=Steal This File Sharing Book – A–Z HOWTO for file-sharing |publisher=Boing Boing |date=12 December 2004 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=7 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007042153/http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/12/steal-this-file-shar.html |url-status=live }} He argues that copyright holders should have a monopoly on selling their own digital media and that copyright laws should not be operative unless someone attempts to sell a product that is under someone else's copyright.{{cite web|last=Doctorow|first=Cory|title=The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine|url=http://iai.tv/video/the-internet-is-not-a-waffle-iron-connected-to-a-fax-machine|publisher=IAI|access-date=29 January 2014|archive-date=9 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209041348/http://iai.tv/video/the-internet-is-not-a-waffle-iron-connected-to-a-fax-machine|url-status=live}}

Doctorow is an opponent of digital rights management and claims that it limits the free sharing of digital media and frequently causes problems for legitimate users (including registration problems that lock users out of their own purchases and prevent them from being able to move their media to other devices).{{cite web |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4454381456832593071 |title=Cory Doctorow at Cambridge Business Lectures |date=22 July 2008 |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=3 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103152138/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4454381456832593071 |url-status=live }}

He was a keynote speaker at the 2014 international conference CopyCamp in Warsaw, Poland{{cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/call-for-speakers-copycamp-wa.html |title=Call for Speakers: Copycamp Warsaw, with Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Cory |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=27 May 2014 |website=boingboing.net |access-date=25 November 2014 |language=pl |archive-date=26 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126082630/http://boingboing.net/2014/05/27/call-for-speakers-copycamp-wa.html |url-status=live }} with the presentation "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free."{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo |title=Cory Doctorow – CopyCamp 2014 |publisher=Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska |date=16 December 2014 |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-date=17 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217145805/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}

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In criticising the decay in usefulness of online platforms, Doctorow in 2022 coined the neologism enshittification,{{cite web |last1=Hampton |first1=Rachelle |title=TikTok Isn't For Creators Anymore |url=https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/01/cory-doctorow-how-online-platforms-die |work=ICYMI |publisher=Slate |access-date=21 July 2023 |date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=11 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611205714/https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/01/cory-doctorow-how-online-platforms-die |url-status=live }} (which he calls enpoopification on public airwaves{{cite web |title=Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk's “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/26/cory_doctorow |website=Democracy Now |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=27 February 2025}}) which he defines as a degradation of an online environment caused by greed:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.{{cite magazine |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=23 January 2023 |access-date=1 June 2023 |url=https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ |title=The 'Enshittification' of TikTok |magazine=WIRED |publisher=Condé Nast |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601004832/https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ |url-status=live }}

The word gained traction in 2023, where it was used by a variety of sources in reference to several major platforms discontinuing free features in order to further their monetization or taking other actions that were seen to degrade functionality.Multiple sources:

• {{cite news |last1=Mosca |first1=Giuditta |title=Cos'è l'enshitting, il male che attanaglia tutti i social |url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/entertainment-e-servizi/cos-l-enshitting-male-che-attanaglia-tutti-i-social-2109745.html |newspaper=il Giornale |access-date=21 July 2023 |language=it |date=27 January 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029215828/https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/entertainment-e-servizi/cos-l-enshitting-male-che-attanaglia-tutti-i-social-2109745.html |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=Hudson |first1=Alex |title=The Beginning of the End for TikTok? |url=https://www.newsweek.com/newsletter/infinite-scroll/2023-01-31/tiktok-enshttification-heating-algorithm-ban |work=Infinite Scroll |publisher=Newsweek |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=31 January 2023 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719224709/https://www.newsweek.com/newsletter/infinite-scroll/2023-01-31/tiktok-enshttification-heating-algorithm-ban |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |last1=Harford |first1=Tim |title=The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad? |url=https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc |newspaper=Forbes |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=3 March 2023 |archive-date=13 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613174718/https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc |url-status=live }}
• {{cite news |title=Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the 'enshittification' of the Internet |last=Naughton |first=John |newspaper=The Guardian |date=11 March 2023 |access-date=1 June 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet |archive-date=31 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531091551/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |title=Why the internet is getting worse |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/why-the-internet-is-getting-worse-1.6880711 |work=Front Burner |publisher=CBC Radio |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=19 June 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015058/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/why-the-internet-is-getting-worse-1.6880711 |url-status=live }}
• {{cite magazine |last1=Barber |first1=Gregory |title=Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? |url=https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-twitter-alternatives-enshittification-trap/ |magazine=WIRED |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015101/https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-twitter-alternatives-enshittification-trap/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=Summerson |first1=Isabelle |title='Enshittification' and social media for academics |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/enshittification/102602626 |publisher=ABC Radio National |access-date=20 July 2023 |date=14 July 2023 |archive-date=20 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720015101/https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/enshittification/102602626 |url-status=live }} In its annual vote, the American Dialect Society designated enshittification as 2023's Word of the Year.{{cite web|title=2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"|url=https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/|date=January 5, 2024|website=American Dialect Society|access-date=January 7, 2024|archive-date=13 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113224822/https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5|website=ft.com|first=Cory|last=Doctorow|year=2024|title='Enshittification' is coming for absolutely everything|quote=“Enshittification is metastasising into every corner of our lives. Software doesn’t eat the world, it just enshittifies it”|location=London|publisher=Financial Times}}

In November 2024, the Australian Macquarie Dictionary selected it as its word of the year, defining it as follows:{{cite web

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The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.

• 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer{{cite web |url=http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/Hugos/hugos2000.html |title=The Long List of Hugo Awards, 2000 |publisher=Nesfa.org |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=22 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122034717/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/Hugos/hugos2000.html |url-status=dead }}
• 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
• 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
• 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
• 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award{{cite web|url=http://www.privacydigest.com/2007/03/31/eff%20yochai%20benkler%20cory%20doctorow%20and%20bruce%20schneier%20win%20eff%20pioneer%20awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816024607/http://www.privacydigest.com/2007/03/31/eff%20yochai%20benkler%20cory%20doctorow%20and%20bruce%20schneier%20win%20eff%20pioneer%20awards|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 August 2010|title=EFF: Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, and Bruce Schneier Win EFF Pioneer Awards}}

• 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award{{cite web |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_campbell_index.asp?at=CA&emulate=&navi=%23year09&Page=1&PageLength=10 |title=The John W. Campbell Memorial Award Listing |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816010157/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_campbell_index.asp?at=CA&emulate=&navi=%23year09&Page=1&PageLength=10 |archive-date=16 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}
• 2009 Prometheus Award
• 2009 Sunburst Award
• 2009 White Pine Award{{cite web |url=http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263-265 |title=White Pine Award list of winners |access-date=28 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930064223/http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263-265 |archive-date=30 September 2011 }}
• 2018 Inkpot Award{{Cite web |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot |title=Inkpot Award |date=6 December 2012 |access-date=18 October 2020 |archive-date=29 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129155249/http://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot |url-status=live }}

;For Pirate Cinema

• 2013 Prometheus Award

• 2014 Prometheus Award

In chronological sequence, unless otherwise indicated

• {{cite book|title=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom|year=2003|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-0436-8|title-link=Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom}}
• {{cite book|title=Eastern Standard Tribe|year=2004|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-0759-6|title-link=Eastern Standard Tribe}}
• {{cite book|title=Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town|year=2005|publisher=Tor|isbn=0-7653-1278-6|title-link=Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town}}
• {{cite book|title=Makers|year=2009|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-1279-2|title-link=Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
• {{cite book|title=For the Win|year=2010|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-2216-6|title-link=For the Win}}
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-6048-6404-5}}
• {{cite book|title=The Rapture of the Nerds|date=September 2012|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-765-32910-3|title-link=The Rapture of the Nerds}} (with Charles Stross)
• {{cite book|title=Pirate Cinema|date=2012|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-2908-0|title-link=Pirate Cinema (novel)}}
• {{cite book|title=Walkaway|date=2017|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-9276-3|title-link=Walkaway (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
• {{cite book |title=The Lost Cause |date=2023 |publisher=Tor |isbn=978-1-0359-0223-1 |title-link=The Lost Cause (Cory Doctorow novel)}}

• {{cite book |title=Little Brother |year=2008 |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates |isbn=978-0-7653-1985-2 |title-link=Little Brother (Doctorow novel)}}
• {{cite book|title=Homeland|date=2013|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-0-7653-3369-8|title-link=Homeland (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
• {{cite book|title=Attack Surface|date=2020|publisher=Head of Zeus|isbn=978-1-8389-3996-0|title-link=Attack Surface (Cory Doctorow novel)}}

• {{cite book|title=Red Team Blues|year=2023|publisher=Head of Zeus|isbn=978-1-8045-4774-8 |title-link=Red Team Blues (Cory Doctorow novel)}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Bezzle |publisher=Tor Books |year=2024 |isbn=978-1250865878}}
• {{Cite book |title=Picks and Shovels|publisher=Tor Books |year=2025 |isbn=9781250865908}}

• In Real Life. Illustrated by Jen Wang. First Second. 2014. {{ISBN|978-1596436589}}.
• Poesy the Monster Slayer. Illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. First Second. 2020. {{ISBN|978-1626723627}}.

• {{cite book |title=A Place So Foreign and Eight More |year=2003 |publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows |isbn=1568582862|title-link=A Place So Foreign and Eight More }} or {{ISBN|978-1-5685-8286-3}}
• {{cite book |title=Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present |year=2007 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1560259817|title-link=Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present }}
• {{cite book |title=With a Little Help |year=2009 |publisher=Cor-Doc Co. |isbn=9780557943050|title-link=With a Little Help }}
• Other instance: {{cite book |title=With a little help |url=https://archive.org/details/WithALittleHelp_201410 |year=2011 |publisher=CreateSpace |isbn=9781456576349}}
• {{cite book|title=Radicalized|title-link=Radicalized (Doctorow book)|date=19 March 2019|publisher=Tor|isbn=978-1-2502-2858-1}}

• {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |last2=Schroeder |first2= Karl |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction |publisher=Alpha |date=2000 |isbn=0028639189|title-link=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction }}
• {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author2=Shelley Powers |author3=J. Scott Johnson |author4=Mena G. Trott |author5=Benjamin Trott |author6=Rael Dornfest |title=Essential blogging |publisher=O'Reilly |date=2002 |isbn=0596003889 |display-authors=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596003883 }}
• {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=Ebooks : neither E, nor books |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11077 |publisher=Project Gutenberg |date=1 February 2004 |access-date=5 December 2014}} Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004.
• {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |editor-last=Yeffeth |editor-first=Glenn |title=The anthology at the end of the universe : leading science fiction authors on Douglas Adams' The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |publisher=BenBella |date=2005 |chapter=Wikipedia : a genuine H2G2, minus the editors |isbn=9781932100563}}
• {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Content : selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future |url=https://archive.org/details/contentselectedes00doct |url-access=registration |publisher=Tachyon |date=2008 |isbn=9781892391810}}
• {{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=You can't own knowledge |url=http://freesouls.cc/essays/05-cory-doctorow-you-cant-own-knowledge.html |publisher=Freesouls |date=2010 |access-date=5 December 2014}}
• {{cite journal |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |date=Jan 2010 |title=Close enough for rock 'n' roll |journal=Locus |issue=588 |page=29}}
• {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Context : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st Century |publisher=Tachyon |date=2011 |isbn=9781616960483 |url=https://archive.org/details/context0000doct }}
• {{cite book |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age |publisher= McSweeney's |date=2014 |isbn=9781940450285|title-link=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free}}
• {{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=Demon-Haunted World |url=http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/09/cory-doctorow-demon-haunted-world/ |publisher=Locus Online |date=2 September 2017 }}
• {{cite book |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-mask=1 |title=How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism |url=https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907 |publisher=Medium Editions |date=21 January 2021 |isbn=9781736205907}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Giblin |first1=Rebecca |title=Chokepoint Capitalism |last2=Doctorow |first2=Cory |date=27 September 2022 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-080700706-8}}
• The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (2023)

• Tesseracts Eleven with Holly Phillips (2007)

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• {{Cite journal | last1 = Doctorow | first1 = C. | author-link1 = Cory Doctorow| title = Big data: Welcome to the petacentre | doi = 10.1038/455016a | journal = Nature | volume = 455 | issue = 7209 | pages = 16–21 | year = 2008 | pmid = 18769411| doi-access = free }}
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Laurie | first1 = B.| author-link1 = Ben Laurie | last2 = Doctorow | first2 = C. | author-link2 = Cory Doctorow| doi = 10.1038/491325a | title = Computing: Secure the Internet | journal = Nature | volume = 491 | issue = 7424 | pages = 325–326 | year = 2012 | pmid = 23151561| bibcode = 2012Natur.491..325L| s2cid = 4408297| doi-access = free }}

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• {{Official website|https://craphound.com|Cory Doctorow}} – official site
• [https://pluralistic.net Pluralistic], daily links by Cory Doctorow
• {{Gutenberg author|id=3826|name=Cory Doctorow}}
• {{Internet Archive author|sname=Cory Efram Doctorow}}
• {{ISFDB name|id=Cory_Doctorow|name=Cory Doctorow}}
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• {{Muckrack}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqgHL3CYeo Information Doesn't Want to Be Free], Cory Doctorow presentation at the CopyCamp 2014 conference

• [https://www.cyberpunks.com/interview-cory-doctorow-fights-for-the-internet 2019 interview with Doctorow] at Cyberpunks.com
• [https://thefreelunch.org/article/yester-year-has-fallen 2020 interview with Doctorow]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029235020/https://thefreelunch.org/article/yester-year-has-fallen|date=29 October 2020}} by Johannes Grenzfurthner in The Free Lunch magazine
• [https://sfss.space/short-interview-6-cory-doctorow 2022 interview with Doctorow] at sfss.space

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