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BIOGRAPHY Born in Toronto , Ontario , Canada to Trotskyist Teacher s, Doctorow was raised in an Activist household, working in the Nuclear Disarmament movement and as a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative on Big Rideau Lake, Ontario , helping to run a conference center devoted to peace and social justice education and activist training. He received his High School Diploma from a Free School in Toronto called SEED School, and dropped out of four universities without attaining a degree. Doctorow lives in to Microsoft 's Research group. Fiction Doctorow's first novel, '' Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom ,'' is a utopian novel set in a future Walt Disney World where scarcity has been abolished and economic transactions are mediated through a reputation system similar to Slashdot 's "Karma", measured in units called Whuffie . It was published in January 2003, and was the first novel released under a Creative Commons license. The license allowed readers to freely circulate the electronic edition, and that electronic edition was released simultaneously with the print edition. ''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'' was re-licensed under an expanded Creative Commons license in March 2003, to allow non-commercial derivative works such as Fan Fiction . Doctorow has argued that this commercial success has been due, at least in part, to the free licensing terms which build an audience for the books. A semi-sequel short story called ''Truncat'' was published on Salon.com in August 2003. Doctorow's first short story collection, ''A Place So Foreign and Eight More'' was published in September 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press (now Avalon Books). It collected nine of Doctorow's short stories, and an introduction by Bruce Sterling . Six of these stories were also released electronically under a Creative Commons license. The stories in this volume are ''Craphound'', ''A Place So Foreign'', ''All Day Sucker'', ''To Market, To Market: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey'', ''Return to Pleasure Island'', ''Shadow of the Mothaship'', ''Home Again, Home Again'', ''The Super Man and the Bugout'', and ''0wnz0red''. Doctorow's second novel, '' Eastern Standard Tribe ,'' was released in March 2004 in hardcover and in paperback in spring 2005. It concerns "tribes" of management consultants whose common bond is their sleep schedule. It revolves around a "traffic Napster " for car-to-car file sharing, something that has subsequently been experimented with as an actual technology.Doctorow, Cory. " Eastern Standard Tribe coming true? ". ''Boing Boing''. October 13, 2004.Silverstein, Jonathan. " iRadio 'Pirates' Take to the Highways ". ''ABC News''. October 11, 2004. As with ''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,'' ''Eastern Standard Tribe'' was released in a freely distributable electronic edition licensed under Creative Commons terms simultaneous with its print release. Doctorow's third novel, '' guerrillas and a race of people who have impossible, fantastic powers and anatomy (a winged woman, an animated corpse, a trio of walking, talking nesting Russian dolls). It is set in Northern Ontario and in Toronto 's Kensington Market area. Other Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book, ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction'' (co-written with Karl Schroeder and published in 2000), and his contributions to Boing Boing , the weblog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in '' Popular Science '' and '' Make '' magazines. He is a Contributing Writer to '' Wired '' magazine, and contributes occasionally to other magazines and newspapers such as the ''New York Times Sunday Magazine'', the ''Globe and Mail'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', and the ''Boston Globe''. In 2004, he wrote an essay on Wikipedia included in ''The Anthology at the End of the Universe'' comparing Internet attempts at Hitchhiker's Guide-type resources including discussing his own article on Wikipedia. In the same year, he delivered a talk to Microsoft's Research Group related to copyright, technology, and DRM.Doctorow, Cory. " Microsoft Research DRM talk ". June 17, 2004. He won the . In June 1999 he co-founded the Free Software P2P software company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn. The company was sold to the Open Text Corporation in the summer of 2003. Together with Austrian art group Monochrom he initiated the Instant Blitz Copy Fight project. People from all over the world are asked to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters. Doctorow is not related to author ''. May 20, 2004. CRITICISMS AND PARODIES
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