Cory Doctorow ~8 hr read

A man whose father is a mountain and whose mother is a washing machine tries to live an ordinary life, building a free wireless network across the city, while his murderous brother comes hunting.

Cory Doctorow's 2005 novel is a strange, tender blend of contemporary fantasy and social SF. Inventive, warm, utterly original. Read it for one of Doctorow's finest, a wildly imaginative modern fable of family, technology, and belonging, from a leading voice of 21st-century SF.

In its time

Published in 2005, during the 2000s, open-culture and post-scarcity visions.

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).