About the Author

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.

Reviews

Praise for SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN: ‘A glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.’ Gene Wolf ‘Fresh and unconventional … Doctorow demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and everyday can coexist’ Publishers Weekly Praise for Cory Doctorow: ‘Fresh and full of thought-provoking ideas, a book about tomorrow that demands to be read now.’ The Times ‘I’d recommend ‘Little Brother’ over pretty much any book I’ve read this year. Because I think it’ll change lives. It’s a wonderful, important book’ Neil Gaiman ‘A cracking read’ Guardian

Praise for SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN:

'A glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you've ever read.' Gene Wolf

'Fresh and unconventional ... Doctorow demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and everyday can coexist' Publishers Weekly

Praise for Cory Doctorow:

'Fresh and full of thought-provoking ideas, a book about tomorrow that demands to be read now.' The Times

'I'd recommend 'Little Brother' over pretty much any book I've read this year. Because I think it'll change lives. It's a wonderful, important book' Neil Gaiman

'A cracking read' Guardian

It's only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow's fresh, unconventional SF novel, is willing to help everybody he meets. After all, he's the product of a mixed marriage (his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine), so he knows how much being an outcast can hurt. Alan tries desperately to behave like a human being or at least like his idealized version of one. He joins a cyber-anarchist's plot to spread a free wireless Internet through Toronto at the same time he agrees to protect his youngest brothers (members of a set of Russian nesting dolls) from their dead brother who's now resurrected and bent on revenge. Life gets even more chaotic after he becomes the lover and protector of the girl next door, whom he tries to restrain from periodically cutting off her wings. Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe) treats these and other bizarre images and themes with deadpan wit. In this inventive parable about tolerance and acceptance, he demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and the everyday can coexist. Agent, Russell Galen. (May 5) FYI: Doctorow won the 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.