Cory Doctorow 47 min read

Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns of pop culture, filtered through SF-colored glasses, a wild, plugged-in vision of the near future.

Cory Doctorow's 2000 story is an inventive, culture-savvy social-SF space opera from a leading voice of turn-of-the-century SF. Smart, daring, entertaining. Read it for early Doctorow, a boundary-boggling romp praised by Gaiman and Dozois, mapping the wired world just over the horizon.

In its time

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

Reading it

47 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).