Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow

I've enjoyed several of Doctorow's pod-casted short stories (especially Anda's Game) but this is the first full length novel of his that I have read. It's a great fast-paced story that plunges you into the near-future world of a network consultant forwarding the interests of his time-zone 'tribe' by sabotaging the code of their European rivals. Doctorow is at his best when he's fleshing out the 'what-ifs' of our digital culture; he fabricates train wrecks between social structures and electronic ones and writes stories based on the results. A quick read, but an enjoyable one.

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