Paperback, 592 pages
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2010 by HarperVoyager.
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".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.
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".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.
This book has not aged well, and there are a lot of things that just rubs me the wrong way. Weird, because I am a fan of Doctorow's.
Finished a bit over half before I decided it's just not worth it.
This book has not aged well, and there are a lot of things that just rubs me the wrong way. Weird, because I am a fan of Doctorow's.
Finished a bit over half before I decided it's just not worth it.
