Creative Writing Samples - Page 4

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2006) As a science fiction writer, no piece of news could make me more hopeful. It…

This article [The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/14/the-memoirs-of-joseph-grimaldi/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, September, 2006) The theory is that if the Internet can’t be controlled, then copyright is dead. The…

This article [Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/05/olaus-magnuss-sea-serpent/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

By Orla Polten “Come On, Humans, One More Effort If You Want To Be Post-Christians!” is the cheeky title of a 2006 essay on theology’s…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in The Guardian as “Online Censorship Hurts Us All,” Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007) Artists have lots of problems. We get…

This article [The Mysteries of Nature and Art] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/28/the-mysteries-of-nature-and-art/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2007) Science fiction is a literature of the present. Many’s the science fiction writer who uses…

This article [Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/15/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published as “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers will Kill Facebook,” in InformationWeek, November 26, 2007) Facebook’s “platform” strategy has sparked much online…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published as “How Hollywood, Congress, and DRM are Beating Up the American Economy,” InformationWeek, June 11, 2007) Back in 1985, the…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, April 2005) “Mostly Harmless”: a phrase so funny that Adams actually…

Born into a Christian family in Chhindwara, India, as Nirmala Srivastava in 1923, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was a renowned spiritual teacher that was not…

Many of the arguments that turn up in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement—between people who apparently should agree—are because of a difference…

This article [Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/09/simple-songs-virginia-woolf-and-music/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [The First Olympic Protest] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/07/25/the-first-olympic-protest/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

By Peter Lovesey This article [Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/08/09/conan-doyles-olympic-crusade/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If…

POEMS by EMILY DICKINSON Series One Edited by two of her friends MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W. HIGGINSON PREFACE THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong…

This article [Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/15/frankenstein-the-baroness-and-the-climate-refugees-of-1816/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike…

This article [100 Years of The Secret Garden] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/03/08/100-years-of-the-secret-garden/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…