Audio. eBooks. Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic. From Locus Magazine, May 2007 I wrote my first story when I was six.
It was 1977, and I had just had my mind blown clean out of my skull by a new movie called Star Wars (the golden age of science fiction is 12; the golden age of cinematic science fiction is six). I rushed home and stapled a bunch of paper together, trimmed the sides down so that it approximated the size and shape of a mass-market paperback, and set to work.