 NewsComplete podcast of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town is my weirdest book by far, a fantasy novel about a man whose father is a mountain and whose mother is a washing machine, who moves from small-town Ontario to Toronto to help build a citywide meshing wireless network with a crustypunk dumpster-diver. Reading the book aloud was enormously satisfying. I hadn't read it through since I finished the final draft in 2004, and in many ways it was like coming back to it for the first time. But even more satisfying was the participation from my readers. First there was John Taylor Williams, of DC's Wryneck Studios, who volunteered to master the audio for me, adding bed-music, editing out the gonks, and making it sound really good -- he started this around week 27, and it seriously improved the final 9 episodes. Then Glenn Jones, a reader in the UK, decided to create a dedicated podcast feed for the book, with all 36 episodes, to make it easy to fetch and play in one gulp. Im not sure what I'll podcast next -- I have a little more than a week to think about it -- but I'm really looking forward to it. Podcast feed for Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Randomizer script for SOMEONE COMES TO TOWNDavid Wallace Jackson wrote a script that randomly changes the names of the characters in my 2005 Tor Books novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town -- a book in which the characters' names fluctuate, with only their first initials remaining constant. It's an absolutely delightful idea! Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (remix) The Golems
The Golems and pieces of Davey Someone Comes to Town and Truncat in Slovak
Pavol Hvizdos just finished translating two of my works into Slovak, releasing the translations under Creative Commons licenses and putting them on the Internet Archive. Pavol chose my third novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and my short story Truncat (a sequel, of sorts, to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom). This is way too cool. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in Slovakian, Slovak fan-translations of my booksPavol Hvizdos, a Slovak speaker, has translated three of my books into Slovakian -- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and Overclocked. The translations are Creative Commons licensed for your remixing and sharing pleasure. I can't tell you how awesomely cool it is to have readers spontaneously undertake major translation projects just for the fun of it. I believe that sharing my books under CC licenses inspires my readers to promote them, and this is the proof that it works. w00t! Someone Comes to Town quoted on CBS’s Criminal Minds
Last night's episode of Criminal Minds on CBS opened with a quote from my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town -- keen! (Thanks to everyone who wrote in about this!) Someone Comes to Town shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst awardI'm pleased as punch to say that my novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leave Town has been shortlisted for the Sunburst, Canada's national science fiction award. The Sunburst jury honored me with the award in 2004 for my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More and this is a double-helping of delight. Someone Comes to Town... comes out in a new trade paperback edition this week, too! Free
Locus Recommended Reading List 2005I'm delighted to note that Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was selected for Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005 in their best novels category! Reading/signing in London tomorrowA reminder: I'm doing a a reading and signing tomorrow (Monday) night at London's Stanhope Centre, near Marble Arch, at 6:30PM. Books will be on sale and light refreshments provided. Hope to see you there! 
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The combination of Alan facing up to his family and their strangeness, the damage his dead brother will do to everything Alan cares about, and Doctorow’s inescapable technological enthusiasm eventuates in a lovely, satisfying tale.
Regina Schroeder, Booklist [Read more quotes about the book] 
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