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31 March 2003: Author Focus on Cory Doctorow

[Interview: Cory Doctorow, by Katherine Macdonald]

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ARTICLE: Interview: Cory Doctorow, by Katherine Macdonald

"At the time that Napster was shut down, there were fifty-seven million American Napster users, and that was one month after fifty million George Bush voters elected the President; so there were more Napster users than Bush voters."

FICTION: Visit the Sins, by Cory Doctorow

The kids had been scattered, unable to focus. Then they had the operation, and suddenly it wasn't a problem anymore. Whenever their attention dropped below a certain threshold, they just switched off, until the world regained some excitement.

REVIEW: A Singular Debut: Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, reviewed by Tim Pratt

With the publication of his first novel . . . [Doctorow has] appeared at the vanguard of a trend within science fiction that's so bleeding-edge it doesn't even have a stupid nickname yet.

EDITORIAL: Journals and Communities, by Mary Anne Mohanraj and Jed Hartman

Online forums of various sorts, and particularly online journals, have provided a fertile ground for community-building in the speculative fiction world. Here at Strange Horizons, we're big proponents of community-building, so we're pleased to see this process at work.