Talk by Cory Doctorow set for Thursday

What: A free and open talk on the Electronic Frountier Foundation and Copyright
When: 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5
Where: Wilson Library's Pleasants Family Room, UNC at Chapel Hill

Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for EFF. He is one of EFF's spokespeople, works on policy research and participates in standards bodies, and works to enlist the support of other organizations in EFF's issues. In a previous life, he was a software entrepreneur, co-founding a company called OpenCola. At the 2000 Hugo Awards, Cory Doctorow won the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer. His first novel, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" was recently published by Tor Books. His second novel, "Eastern Standard Tribe," is due out on March 1. He is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing and is a frequent contributor to Wired Magazine and the O'Reilly Network. He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.

This just in: Cory Doctorow's short story "0wnz0red" is a finalist for the Nebula Award in Science Fiction.

Cory's books include:

• Doctorow, Cory. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor Books. December
  2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/down/
• Doctorow, Cory. Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor Books. March, 2004.
• Doctorow, Cory and Schroeder, Karl. Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing
  Science Fiction. Alpha Books. 2000.
• Doctorow, Cory. A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Four Walls Eight
  Windows. October 2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/place/
• Powers, Shelley (editor) with Doctorow, Cory et al. Essential Blogging.
  O'Reilly and Associates. September 2002.