So. Freakin'. Exciting. "Lecture/Booksigning by Cory Doctorow, writer, public speaker, co-editor and blogger for BoingBoing, and European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit group working to protect digital rights. His story, "Craphound" was published in the March 1998 issue of Science Fiction Age and he has since sold dozens of stories. His first novel, "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom won the Locus Award winner for best first novel and "Eastern Standard Tribe" was recently released in paperback. His collection of short stories, "A Place So Foreign and Eight More," won the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Science Fiction. "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," is a contemporary fantasy novel about wireless networking. Sponsored by MIT Office of the Arts Student and Artist-in-Residence Programs and Comparative Media Studies. Reception follows in E15 lobby. 5-7pm, Bartos Theater (E15). 617/253-5038"
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