Eastern Standard Tribe - Hardcover

Doctorow, Cory

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ISBN 10: 0765307596 ISBN 13: 9780765307590

Publisher: Tor Books, 2004

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Art, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe--a secret society bound together according to their sleep schedule, communicating via encrypted instant messaging and secret protocols, and sharing a love of Manhattan-style bagels--finds himself incarcerated in the nut-house, thanks to a cabal of his friends and family, who are masquerading as management consultants.

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About the Author:

Cory Doctorow cofounded the Internet search-engine company OpenCola.com and now works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His personal Web site is at http://www.craphound.com. His weblog Boing (boingboing.net), coedited with Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz, is read by more than 130,000 unique visitors every month. In 2000, the World Science Fiction convention voted him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He lives in San Francisco.

From the Inside Flap:

"I know many science fiction writers engaged in the cyber-world, but Cory Doctorow is a native....We should all hope and trust that our culture has the guts and moxie to follow this guy. He's got a lot to tell us." -Bruce Sterling

A powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own life

"Cory Doctorow is the most interesting new SF writer I've come across in years. He starts out at the point where older SF writers' speculations end."
--Rudy Rucker, author of Spaceland

"Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future--I think he lives there."
-Kelly Link

"Cory Doctorow rocks! Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is about a world that is visible in its outlines today, if you know where to look, from reputation systems to peer-to-peer ad-hocracies. Doctorow knows where to look."
--Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs

"Nicely understated: meringue laced with caffeine."
-Publishers Weekly on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

"It's cool, it's hip, and it's fun-but more important, it's about something. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a sleek, tightly written book that, as the best science fiction should, engages with the world."
-Locus

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