I'm Sean Gillooly, a sophomore from New Jersey majoring in physics. My lifelong interest in all things scientific certainly contributes to my interest in science fiction, but I like to think that it all started with a box of my father's old books that he found in the attic. It was around the time that I was first starting to read on my own, so he showed me a few of the shorter books, among them The Time Machine, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I was immediately hooked, and started plunging myself into new worlds through every science fiction book I could get my hands on. I found more to read as I got older, with Douglas Adams taking up much of my free time in middle school, and the stories of Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, and Isaac Asimov accompanying me through high school. I tried branching out into Sci-Fi television, and was rewarded with Firefly, Dollhouse, and eventually Doctor Who, which quickly became and still remains my absolute favorite show. I'm looking forward to reading everything this class has in store, as well as having a chance to look at what I've already enjoyed in more detail.
Sean, what works by Cory Doctorow have you read?
ReplyDeleteI've read Little Brother, some of Makers, and a number of short stories that he either published or posted online.
ReplyDeleteDid Makers not interest you enough to finish it?
ReplyDeleteOther Doctorow works well worth reading include his first two novels, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe, as well as his scary short story "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth."