A multi-generational SF thriller about the momentous changes coming in the next hundred years: an epic tale of revolution, love, war, and the end of death.
Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for the Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Locus. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.
Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open
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LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture and zipped it down into a
pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it
*Neal Stephenson*
The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously
imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary
example I know of. A wonderful novel
*William Gibson*
A hard-edged, intelligent look at our immediate future and the high
and low points of human nature, incisive, compelling and
plausible
*Adrian Tchaikovsky*
Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers... 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*
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*
A beautifully done utopia, just far enough off normal to be science
fiction, and just near enough to the near-plausible, on both the
utopian and dystopian elements, to be eerie as almost
programmatic... a sheer delight'
*Yochai Benchler*
Takes the idea of personalities as computer programs to its logical
consequence, and envisages multiple copies of the same program –
the same person – running simultaneously on different networks.
This is the closest anyone will ever get to the fantasy of cloning
identical human beings
*Guardian*
A bravura piece of storytelling, and marks a powerful shift in
awareness and understanding, not just for the characters but
undoubtedly for the readers themselves
*National Post*
The tech may be more advanced, but the politics feel familiar...
The overwhelming message of Walkaway is hope [and] right now, that
could not feel more timely'
*SciFiNow.*
Proper science fiction. A warning of our times. An investigation of
what it means to be a human today and where the future might take
us
*Nudge.*
Mr Doctorow's philosophy is passionately argued... and the thinking
is lively'
*Wall Street Journal*
Cory Doctorow is one of the most exciting writers of Science
Fiction currently working
*The Bookbag*
At times, Doctorow's worldview and the day-after-tomorrow world
he's created in Walkaway seems a bit rosy, too trusting of human
nature and digital innovation. But he's no more a wide-eyed hippie
than an Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian, and his view of humanity is
complex
*LA Times*
[Doctorow's] fullest, most important book so far, and a lot of fun
even to disagree with
*Toronto Star*
I came to care about its characters. Doctorow somehow managed to
make me feel their fear, hope, and love
*Quill and Quire*
This is the best Cory Doctorow ever... Walkaway is a sprawling,
ominous and important work of a kind one rarely sees'
*Locus Online*
Doctorow is an assured writer and can write to convince...
Definitely a novel to set the brain cells buzzing'
*Nudge Book*
Doctorow mixes his expert knowledge of issues involving abusive
threats to new technologies and online civil liberties with a
writing style that attracts readers across generations and genres.
What results is a page-turner that explores a revolutionary
response to the bourgeois elite
*Cascadia Magazine*
[It is] fascinating for what Doctorow has taken from our world and
run into the not-so-distant future with... He is also very good at
characterisation'
*Concatenation*
An exciting, thought-provoking read that any Cory Doctorow fan is
sure to enjoy. This one certainly did!
*Shoreline of Infinity*
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