Cory Doctorow Short Stories/Novellas books in order

Cory Doctorow's short stories and novellas span from I, Robot (2005) to The Canadian Miracle (2023), covering themes of technology and society.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 I, Robot 2005 Cory Doctorow Buy
2 When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth 2006 Cory Doctorow Buy
3 The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away 2008 Cory Doctorow Buy
4 True Names 2008 Cory Doctorow Buy
5 Chicken Little 2011 Cory Doctorow Buy
6 After the Siege 2015 Cory Doctorow Buy
7 Anda’s Game 2015 Cory Doctorow Buy
8 Car Wars 2016 Cory Doctorow N/A
9 Party Discipline 2017 Cory Doctorow Buy
10 Unauthorized Bread / Wie man einen Toaster überlistet: Novelle 2019 Cory Doctorow Buy
11 Poesy the Monster Slayer 2020 Cory Doctorow Buy
12 The Canadian Miracle 2023 Cory Doctorow Buy

Cory Doctorow’s shorter fiction spans nearly two decades, from I, Robot (2005), which reworked Asimov’s ideas through a modern lens, to The Canadian Miracle (2023). Many of these stories first appeared in magazines or online before being collected. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) imagined system administrators keeping the internet running after a global catastrophe.

Unauthorized Bread (2019) became one of his best-known novellas, telling the story of a refugee who hacks her own toaster when corporate DRM locks her out. His children’s book Poesy the Monster Slayer (2020) shows a lighter side to his writing.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Cory Doctorow Short Stories/Novellas series?

There are twelve books in the Cory Doctorow Short Stories/Novellas series, published between 2005 and 2023.

What is the first book in the Cory Doctorow Short Stories/Novellas series?

The first book in the Cory Doctorow Short Stories/Novellas series is I, Robot, published in 2005.

What is Cory Doctorow's novella Unauthorized Bread about?

Unauthorized Bread (2019) follows a refugee who hacks her apartment’s smart appliances after the manufacturer goes bankrupt and the devices lock her out. It was later included in the collection Radicalized and became one of Doctorow’s most discussed shorter works.

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