![]() ![]() Doctorow's always been a near-future writer (with a few exceptions, ex. If anything, the story's a bit depressing if thought of as part of the science fiction genre-there's no grand space opera (not that Doctorow ever promised that), no overwhelming sense of the numinous in the technological, no mind-bending devices. ![]() While certainly not his most polished work, there are no jarring passages, and the story is pleasingly homogeneous throughout, despite the frequent shifts in location and character focus noted by other reviewers. It very much feels like a "social problem novel" of a century or two ago-imagine Elizabeth Gaskell with an Internet connection and an iphone. As noted by the other reviews here, it's the ideas that Doctorow puts on display, not the characters, and this novel, perhaps more than any previous work, feels a lot like a month-long perusal of BoingBoing compressed into a few days. ![]()
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