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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

By Cory Doctorow

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| Paperback | 9780765312808

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Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveaContinue

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wingswings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers is a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstepwell on their way to starvation because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned....bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who build miracles of hardware scavenged from the city's Dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him aloneand Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

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  • Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town / By Cory Doctorow

    Tor Books, $34.95, 315 pp, hardcover. Cory Doctorow is nothing if not provocative. In his previous science-fiction novels, he's imagined rival gangs with patches not of neighbourhood but of time zones (Eastern Standard Tribe) and a Disney World where ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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  • Great book. For the first few chapters, it was rather confusing, but after the story clears up more and more, you can't stop enjoying this great book. It's certainly not easy to keep through the irst part, but it's worth the effort, for this is a really exotic and incredible story!

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