Posted on 30/07/05
Here be monsters
Someone Comes to Town,Someone Leaves TownBy Cory DoctorowTor, 315 pages, $34.95Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is very different from Cory Doctorow's earlier novels. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) and Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) present the extrapolated worlds of the future. Someone moves between the realms of fantasy, allegory and sometimes science fiction, and it is set in present-day Toronto. The novel presents some of Doctorow's most striking insights into the cultural implications of new technologies, making it his best work to date.
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