Cory Doctorow (http://craphound.com/) is the author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (http://craphound.com/down), A Place So Foreign and Eight More (http://craphound.com/place), and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (http://craphound.com/nonfic/cigpsf.html) (with Karl Schroeder). He was raised in Toronto and lives in San Francisco, where he works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/), a civil liberties group. He's a journalist, editorialist and blogger. Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net/), the weblog he co-edits, is the most linked-to blog on the Net, according to Technorati (http://technorati.com/). He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugos. You can download this book for free from (http://craphound.com/est).