Cory Doctorow ~12 hr read

Two brilliant garage inventors ride a boom-and-bust of do-it-yourself capitalism, building wild new businesses from junk and 3D printers as the economy remakes itself around them.

Cory Doctorow's 2009 novel is a sprawling, ideas-packed cyberpunk-flavored tale of invention, obsolescence, and the future of making things. Sharp, prescient, exuberant. Read it for a big, restless novel about tinkerers reshaping the world, and the forces that rise to tear it down.

In its time

Published in 2009, during the 2000s, open-culture and post-scarcity visions.

Reading it

~12 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).