Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang will be making appearances in support of their new graphic novel In Real Life, adapted from Doctorow’s story “Anda’s Game”! While playing her favorite MMORPG, Coarsegold Online, Anda meets and befriends a gold farmer—a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person’s real livelihood is at stake. The comic, published by First Second Books, is available October 14th.
Check out an excerpt from IRL, and read the Tor.com original comic “Con/Game,” set in the IRL universe. Then click through to see if the IRL tour is coming to a town near you!
October 10th-12th (Cory Doctorow)
New York Comic-Con
New York, NY
October 13th, 1:00 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
Labyrinth Books
Princeton, NJ
October 13th, 7:00 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
The Strand
New York, NY
October 15th, 7:30 p.m. (Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang)
Skylight Bookstore
Los Angeles, CA
October 16th, 7:30 p.m. (Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang)
Mrs. Dalloway’s
San Francisco, CA
October 17th, 5:00 p.m. (Jen Wang)
Mission: Comics and Art
San Francisco, CA
October 17th, 7:00 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
University Bookstore
Seattle, WA
October 18th, 12:25 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
Texas Teen Book Festival
Austin, TX
October 19th, 2:00 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
Rain Taxi at the Rondo Library
Minneapolis, MN
October 20th, 7:00 p.m. (Cory Doctorow)
Barnes & Noble Old Orchard
Chicago, IL
