Which Cory Doctorow book shall I start with?

I’m arriving fresh and new to the talents of polymathic blogger/sci-fi author and Creative Commons champion, Cory Doctorow, and that bugs me because I can’t quite understand why he’s slipped under my radar for so long. It’s almost as if I was one of those guys waking up from a coma, and great chunks of history have passed me by. His work is so in the space that I find entirely fascinating that I’m genuinely bemused why I’m  late to the game in knowing who he is. How did that happen?

When cyberpunk don William Gibson was in England earlier this month, Doctorow shared the stage with him at an Intelligence Squared event in London, which for me was a measure of how high Cory’s hip quotient must be!

His stuff intrigues me so much that before long I’m going to have to go out and buy one of the books. The question is…which one should be my launch pad?

Any Cory fans out there, ready to let me know where I should start?

(Photo by Jonathan Worth. An annotated version of this image is available on Flickr here. Creative Commons.)

HT to Bex for reminding me what a great word polymath is…

Cory blogs at Craphound.com, co-edits Boing Boing, and crops up all over the place if you Google him…