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Sep 10, 2019
Upcoming Appearances
Here's where you can find me through September, 2019.
- · Digital Dystopia, a talk with Cory Doctorow, at Toronto’s Word on the Street festival, Sept. 22.
- · Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias, at Toronto Public Libraries starting Sept. 23.
- · I’ll be interviewed in the VR space Sansar by Draxtor on Friday, Sept. 27th 2:00 p.m. EST. Get a Sansar account and join us!
- Scintillation, October 11-13. I’ll be attending this small but intense literary SF convention, in Montreal.
Aug 05, 2019
My Dublin 2019 Worldcon schedule
How and where to find me during Worldcon
Here's my schedule. I'm not going to be in Dublin very long, so I'm going to prioritize meeting people and socializing over sightseeing. You can expect to find me around the con most of the time from Thursday afternoon to Sunday.
Autographs: Thursday at 14:00
15 Aug 2019, Thursday 14:00 - 14:50, Level 4 Foyer (CCD)
Kaffeeklatsch: Karl Schroeder
16 Aug 2019, Friday 13:00 - 13:50, Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)
Reading: Karl Schroeder
16 Aug 2019, Friday 15:00 - 15:20, Liffey Room-3 (Readings) (CCD)
Space opera is for robots; soap opera is for people
Format: Panel
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 10:00 - 10:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)
Will humans ever live long-term in space, or is it easier to let our ‘mind children’ go to the stars, whether as uploaded minds or independent intelligences? If humans (or AI) leave for space, would we miss them?
Lauren James (Walker Books) (M), Diane Duane (The Owl Springs Partnership), Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), Laurence Raphael Brothers
What I learned along the way
Format: Panel
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:00 - 15:50, Wicklow Room-3 (CCD)
Writing is a many wondrous thing filled with highs and lows, but those lows can be really tough to navigate either after a great success or after a lack of success. Rejection is something every writer has to face, but how do writers keep writing in the face of failure? What lessons have they learned along the way? Our panellists share the ups and downs of a writing life.
Aliette de Bodard, Ian R MacLeod (M), Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), George Sandison (Titan Books), Nina Allan
Aug 02, 2019
Amazing review at Locus
Locus Magazine is the premier review of science fiction and fantasy in English. I always wait with bated breath for my Locus review. I'm delighted with this one.
Over at Locus, Paul di Filippo has this to say about Stealing Worlds:
There are a handful of SF writers whose novels are both vastly entertaining and which also serve as engineer-level blueprints for refashioning the world. In this category I would put Kim Stanley Robinson, Vernor Vinge, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and Charles Stross. Now, with a shift in his focus from far futures to near horizons, I would add the name of Karl Schroeder.
Read the rest of the review and see if you agree!
Jun 19, 2019
Great review of Stealing Worlds over at BoingBoing
Cory Doctorow lays it down
Cory likes this book. He says of it,
This is a fucking great novel, full of amazing characters racing around fascinating settings, doing battle, parkouring through surveillance grids, falling in love, betraying each other, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. It's everything you could want from a Karl Schroeder novel, and it's the best Karl Schroeder novel ever (so far).
Apr 20, 2019
An excerpt and early reviews of Stealing Worlds
Tor.com has some words for you
Head over to Tor.com and you can read an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Stealing Worlds, which hits the shelves on June 18. In this clip, Sura is dusting off old skills--breaking into the former family home...
Early Reviews
“Lesser writers use technology as a metaphor; Schroeder is a master of rigor in technological speculation. Part prophet, part critic, Schroeder is a hell of a storyteller.”―Cory Doctorow
“Karl Schroeder seizes cyberpunk traditions and larps them into the onrushing era of blockchains, sentient contracts and rapid-paced convulsions of reality!”―David Brin, author of The Postman and Existence.
Jan 28, 2019
Interviewed by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
In advance of my keynote in Austria on April 2, I was asked about the future of journalism
I'll be in Vienna in early April, speaking at the European Digital Media Awards ceremony. To get a sense of the flavour of the upcoming talk, I was interviewed by journalist Chris Sutcliffe. You can read the interview here.
An excerpt:
“It’s funny: I’ve included augmented reality in my stories for 20 years now. As it finally becomes a viable technology, I find myself doubting it more and more. At first it seemed natural and convenient that we should want to explode the images and interfaces currently inside our screens out onto the physical world. But that may be a terrible idea for a number of reasons...