The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

(Paperback)

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Cory Doctorow burst onto the science fiction scene in 2004 like a rocket, inspiring awe in readers and envy in other writers with his bestselling novels and stories, which he insisted on giving away via the Creative Commons. This celebrated novella tells of the high-velocity adventures of a trans-human teenager in a Disney-dominated future, battling wireheads and wumpuses (and having fun doing it!) until he meets the 'meat girl' of his dreams and must choose between immortality and sex.

Reviews

"Doctorow uses science fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into some of society's unlighted corners."
--New York Times

"Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar--a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)."
--William Gibson, author of Neuromancer

"Everything comes under Doctorow's microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way."
--Locus

"One of the genre's fresh new talents, one of the few who seamlessly mixes the future with the bizarre."
--Rocky Mountain News

"Doctorow shows us life from the point-of-view of the plugged-in generation and makes it feel like a totally alien world."
--Montreal Gazette

Author Bio

Cory Doctorow is an author, an activist, a journalist, and the coeditor of BoingBoing.net. He is the author of Content, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, For the Win, and Little Brother.