Makers (novel)

Makers

Author	Cory Doctorow
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	HarperVoyager (UK) Tor Books (US)
Media type	Book
ISBN	978-0-7653-1279-2

Makers is a novel by Canadian-British science fiction author Cory Doctorow released in October 2009. It was nominated for the Prometheus Award.

The book focuses on a near-future imagining of members of the maker culture, a group Doctorow characterizes as being composed of "people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet".^[1]

The novel is available free on the author's website, as a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA download. It is also published in traditional paper form by HarperVoyager. The UK hardcover is 416 pages long.^[2]

References

↑ Doctorow, Cory (October 28, 2009). "Makers, My New Novel". BoingBoing.
↑ Doctorow, Cory, Makers, p. 416, ISBN 978-0-00-732522-1

External links

"Makers". craphound.com. Official Book Page on Cory Doctorow's website
Doctorow, Cory. "Makers". craphound.com (Online ed.).
"Audio review and discussion of Makers". The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast.

Cory Doctorow

Novels	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005) Makers (2009) The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Charles Stross)

Young-adult novels	Little Brother (2008) For the Win (2010) Pirate Cinema (2012) Homeland (2013)

Short story collections	A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2003) Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (2007) With a Little Help (2010)

Non-fiction	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (2001) Content (2008) Context (2011) Information Doesn't Want to Be Free (2014)

Other	Boing Boing Whuffie /usr/bin/god (canceled)

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