Tag: #corydoctorow
A Place So Foreign and Eight More — Cory Doctorow
Craphound – 1998
A Place So Foreign – 2000
To Market to Market: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey – 2000
Return to Pleasure Island – 1999
Shadow of the Mothaship – 2000
Home Again, Home Again – 1999
The Super Man and the Bugout – 2001
0wnz0red – 2002
Cory’s Page
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Radicalized — Cory Doctorow
Pirate Cinema — Cory Doctorow
Rapture of the Nerds — Cory Doctorow
For the Win — Cory Doctorow
Makers — Cory Doctorow
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow
Eastern Standard Tribe — Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow
Published a year after Altered Carbon this book takes a lot of the re-sleeving ideas from Richard’s book and instead of placing them into the realm of super warriors, criminals, etc.; Cory puts them into a future Disney Land theme park in an alternative dystopian future.
Having very much enjoyed Altered Carbon, i was left quite disappointed by the sequels, especially Woken Furies, and so it was rather nice to find a story like Cory’s that took some of the best ideas of Altered Carbon and spun them into a new Earth-side future that we can all begin to relate to because we’ve all heard of these real places.
No, this isn’t the blood and gore fest that Altered Carbon was, and neither does it have the amazing future-sex-drugs thing — they’re still smoking crack from crack pipes FFS.
But it does have the murder mystery and the loss of the intervening memories between back up and re-sleeving that Altered Carbon does, all wrapped around who gets to control various Disney Land attractions.
So yeah, if you’ve read any other Cory Doctorow books and enjoyed them then do give this a go, and also, if you enjoyed Altered Carbon, i’d bet a few pennies that you’ll enjoy this also, albeit a very much tamed down version.
There’s also a follow up novella: Truncat.
Cory’s Page
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Lawful Interception — Cory Doctorow
Party Discipline — Cory Doctorow
Homeland — Cory Doctorow
Little Brother — Cory Doctorow
Walkaway — Cory Doctorow
Clockwork Fagin — Cory Doctorow
A good little bit of steampunky stuff, and its free too. Go on, treat yourself.