{"product_id":"eastern-standard-tribe-paperback","title":"Eastern Standard Tribe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Cory Doctorow, a powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScathing, bitter and funny, \u003ci\u003eEastern Standard Tribe \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the immutable truths of time, and of societies rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, 24 hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhich might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain....\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI 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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own life \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCory 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.\u003cbr\u003e--Rudy Rucker, author of Spaceland \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future--I think he lives there. \u003cbr\u003e-Kelly Link \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCory 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.\u003cbr\u003e--Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicely understated: meringue laced with caffeine. \u003cbr\u003e-Publishers Weekly on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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. \u003cbr\u003e-Locus\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCORY DOCTOROW is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBoing Boing\u003c\/i\u003e, a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother \u003c\/i\u003eand its sequel \u003ci\u003eHomeland \u003c\/i\u003ewere a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52527392489779,"sku":"9781250196415","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Yk1OSjRhOUVnNFo4eHJ2U0FyRUV2dz09.webp?v=1760648373","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/eastern-standard-tribe-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}