Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He did call me a scourge on humanity, but it was because I told him that I thought it was a different thing.
So my other life, I'm a science fiction novelist.
And I write when I'm anxious.
I wrote like nine books during lockdown.
So I write books for all ages.
I have a new middle grades book coming out next year.
I mean, everything.
Picture books, tech criticism, everything.
And he was singing the praises of a writer who I knew a little, but very much admired, a guy called Ian Banks, who died very tragically of cancer, who was a utopian socialist.
Okay.
And he was like, I consider myself a utopian socialist in the model of Ian Banks.
And I was like, no offense, but I knew Ian.
He was an ardent trade unionist, and you're a union buster.
Yeah.
And he's like, well, in Ian Banks' novels, I didn't see any unions.
And I'm like, yes, these novels are set 100,000 years in the future in which there are galactic brain artificial intelligences piloting spaceships the size of planets with 100 billion people living on them.
The fact that he didn't see a need for unions there –
It tells you nothing about whether he thinks we need a union here.
And he was like, well, if Ian Banks could have seen one of my Tesla factories, he would have seen that we don't need unions either.
And I said, again, no offense.
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