CORY DOCTOROW is special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were a New York Times bestsellers. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for Walkaway
"Is Doctorow's fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly
ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no
way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to
build is the one we'll inhabit. Technology empowers both the
powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more
liberty and less control, we're going to have to fight for
it."--Edward Snowden "The darker the hour, the better the moment
for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best
contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after
fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful
novel: everything we've come to expect from Cory Doctorow and
more."--William Gibson "The Bhagavad Gita of
hacker/maker/burner/open
source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling
culture...zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller
with a lot of sex in it."--Neal Stephenson "Cory Doctorow is one of
our most important science fiction writers, because he's also a
public intellectual in the old style: he brings the news and
explains it, making clearer the confusions of our wild current
moment. His fiction is always the heart of his work, and this is
his best book yet, describing vividly the revolutionary beginnings
of a new way of being. In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes
the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more
thought-provoking and more fun."--Kim Stanley Robinson "Thrilling
and unexpected....A truly visionary techno-thriller that not only
depicts how we might live tomorrow, but asks why we don't already."
Kirkus (starred review) "Doctorow has envisioned a fascinating
world...This intriguing take on a future that might be right around
the corner is bound to please." --Library Journal
"Memorable and engaging. ...Ultimately suffused with hope."
--Booklist "This book genuinely inspired me....Walkaway could well
be the most significant novel of the tens." --Strange Horizons "A
page-turner that explores a revolutionary response to the bourgeois
elite." --Cascadia Weekly "A satisfyingly credible and compelling
world...with ample thought given to how the choices we make in
dealing with individuals shapes the foundation of the society in
which we live." --Winnipeg Free Press "A bravura piece of
storytelling, and marks a powerful shift in awareness and
understanding." --National Post
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