Willing Science Fiction into Fact
Activist-novelist Cory Doctorow explains to Damien G Walter how he hopes his writing will change tomorrow’s world.
Cory Doctorow’s office lies behind a featureless, black security door in a north London side street, deep in a converted post-industrial warehouse, down echoing corridors and concrete stairways. It’s an appropriately “underground” headquarters for the activist-novelist, who is explaining to me why he’s not interested in predicting the future using science fiction, but influencing it.