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Cory Doctorow is an amazing Canadian author, activist, journalist, and blogger. While he may not always use places in Canada as the settings in his fictional stories, the brilliance of his ideas and morals on paper show how awesome Canadians can be! (Or well, part Canadians since his bio says he’s British Canadian lol.)

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Cory Doctorow started writing and publishing works of fiction at the age of 17 with “Craphound” being his debut. Since then, he has written over 150 distinct published works and has won several awards for many of his fiction novels.

In addition to his work as an author, Cory Doctorow is well known for his ideas and activism on liberalising copyright laws and file-sharing which he writes about on his blog “Boing Boing” and in newspaper and magazine columns. In fact, most of his fiction works also deal with these sort of topics; computers and human rights concerning the usage of them.