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Eastern Standard Tribe Blurbs:
“Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar—a hard
Cory Doctorow combination to beat (or, these days, to find).”
Copyright 2004 Cory Doctorow
- William Gibson,
Author of Neuromancer
doctorow@craphound.com

http://www.craphound.com/est
“Cory Doctorow knocks me out. In a good way.“
Tor Books, March 2004
- Pat Cadigan,
ISBN: 0765307596
Author of Synners

“Cory Doctorow is just far enough ahead of the game to give
you that authentic chill of the future, and close enough to home
for us to know that he’s talking about where we live as well as
where we’re going to live; a connected world full of
disconnected people. One of whom is about to lobotomise
himself through the nostril with a pencil. Funny as hell and
sharp as steel.”

- Warren Ellis,
Author of Transmetropolitan
Cory Doctorow Eastern Standard Tribe 2




more or less. I’m a science fiction writer. One way to know the
future is to look good and hard at the present. Here’s a thing
A note about this book: I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more
words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another
Last year, in January 2003, my first novel
thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people are reading
[http://craphound.com/down] came out. I was 31 years old, and
fewer words off of fewer pages than ever before. That
I’d been calling myself a novelist since the age of 12. It was the
doesn’t mean that the book is dying—no more than the advent
storied dream-of-a-lifetime, come-true-at-last. I was and am
of the printing press and the de-emphasis of Bible-copying
proud as hell of that book, even though it is just one book
monks meant that the book was dying—but it does mean that
among many released last year, better than some, poorer than