Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)

Makers  
Author(s) Cory Doctorow
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Fiction
Publisher Tor Books (US) & HarperVoyager (UK)
Media type Book
ISBN 9780765312792

Makers is a novel by Cory Doctorow. It was released in October 2009. 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 book focuses on a near-future imagining of members of the Maker subculture, 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[1]."

The UK hardcover is 416 pages long[2].

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References

  1. ^ http://boingboing.net/2009/10/28/makers-my-new-novel.html
  2. ^ Doctorow, Cory, Makers, p. 416, ISBN 9780007325221