- Fiction, Inventors, Technology, Businesspeople
What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 475
- Publisher
- TOR, HarperCollins Publishers, Tor
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007330867
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From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. 2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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