  Categories: Literary  Courtesy of Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow,
is a man of many faces. The Canadian-born science fiction
author, is also a technology activist, journalist, and blogger.
He is the co-founder of an open source peer-to-peer software
company called OpenCola, and has worked as an activist and later
the director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation before
leaving to pursue writing full-time in 2006. Most of all, he is
a man you should know about.  Doctorow released his first novel,
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (and subsequent novels)
under a Creative Commons license, which allows readers to
download the book for free.  Cory Doctorow will discuss his work
at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe this Sunday, February 10 at
2 p.m. and "Hackers + Activism: Aaron Swartz, Anonymous and the
Ethics of Digital Community" at the Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism and Mass Communication in downtown Phoenix on Monday,
February 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon.  See also: - Sutra
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