Two paperback books by Cory Doctorow side be side on my desk: on the left, In Real Life, a graphical novel illustrated by Jen Wang, and on the right, Makers. IRL's cover depicts two images of a teenage girl, one in a sweatshirt with long, flowing brown hair, and a laptop, the other with purple/pink hair wrapping scale armour with a fancy sword. Makers' cover depicts 11 desperate objects in a scale model parts style matrix, along with the title, as detachable items, in dull blue plastic.