Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)
- Makers (Cory Doctorow novel)
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| 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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- Science fiction novel stubs
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- Novels by Cory Doctorow
- Creative Commons-licensed novels
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