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				<title><![CDATA[Geek Mafia]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Rick Dakan</p><p>Published: 2006</p><p>Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for?</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2007.02.26]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Geek Mafia: Mile Zero]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Rick Dakan</p><p>Published: 2007</p><p>Key West--originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for centuries a refuge for pirates, wreckers, writers, scoundrels, drunks, and tourists. Now home to a Crew of techno geek con artists who've turned it into their own private hunting ground.<br><br>
 Paul and Chloe have the run of the sun-drenched island, free to play and scam far from the enemies they left behind in Silicon Valley. But that doesn't mean they can't bring a little high tech know how to the paradise. They and their new Crew have covered the island with their own private Big Brother style network-hidden cameras, RFID sensors, and a web of informers that tip them off about every crime committed and tourist trapped on the island.<br><br>

But will all the gadgets and games be enough when not one but three rival crews of con artists come to hold a top-secret gang summit? And when one of them is murdered, who will solve the crime?
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[2007.11.09]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Overclocked]]></title>
				<link>http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother07overclocked.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<p>Stories of the Future Present</p><p>Author: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2007</p><p>Printcrime<br>When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (<a href="http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2009/07/19/when-sysadmins-ruled-the-earth/">audiobook</a>)<br>Anda's Game<br>I, Robot<br>I, Row-Boat<br>After the Siege</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2007.07.05]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Little Brother]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2008</p><p>Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works--and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2008.05.05]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Eastern Standard Tribe]]></title>
				<link>http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother04Eastern_Standard_Tribe.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: C. Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2004</p><p>"Cory Doctorow is just far enough ahead of the game to give you that authentic chill of the future, and close enough to home for us to know that he's talking about where we live as well as where we're going to live; a connected world full of disconnected people. One of whom is about to lobotomise himself through the nostril with a pencil. Funny as hell and sharp as steel."
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- Warren Ellis, Author of <em>Transmetropolitan</em>.</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2004.12.11]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom]]></title>
				<link>http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother05domkg10.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2003</p><p>Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" tells a gripping, fast-paced story that hinges on thought-provoking extrapolation from today's technical realities. This is the sort of book that captures and defines the spirit of a turning point in human history when our tools remake ourselves and our world.

 --<em>Mitch Kapor Founder, Lotus, Inc., co-founder Electronic Frontier Foundation</em></p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2005.04.01]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Content]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[<p>Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future</p><p>Author: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2008</p><p>Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine, why Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and how to enjoy free e-books. (--<em>craphound.com</em>)</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2008.12.15]]></pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Makers]]></title>
				<link>http://manybooks.net/titles/doctorowother09makers.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<p>Author: Cory Doctorow</p><p>Published: 2009</p><p>Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester’s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it.

Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.combomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work’s glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester’s 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s.</p>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[2009.10.28]]></pubDate>
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