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“Doctorow strings together wonderfully witty words into pithy sentences that have no right
making as much sense as they do. He brings a powerful but lighthearted magic to a world
we very much hope resembles the real world.”
Agony Column
for
Overclocked
:
“Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
is really good story telling, good extrapolation
on present trends. My sysadmins should check out the first story, ‘When Sysadmins Ruled
the Earth.’”
craiG “craiGslist” NewmarK
“In these quirky, brashly engaged ‘stories of the future present’ Cory Doctorow shows us
life from the point-of-view of the plugged-in generation and makes it feel like a totally alien
world.”
Montreal Gazette
“He has a knack for identifying those seminal trends of our current landscape that will in all
likelihood determine the shape of our future(s)….”
Sci Fi Weekly
“‘Overclocked’ is a reminder that we can’t hope to keep up and shouldn’t bother. But we do
need to keep alert, to keep ourselves caffeinated, to run as fast as we can — if we hope to stay
in the same place. Getting ahead? That’s, alas, a thing of the past.”
NPR
“If you want to glimpse the future of copyright policing, video-game sweatshops, robotic
intelligence, info war, and how computer geeks will survive the apocalypse, then this collec-
tion of shorts is your oracle…. Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his
generation.”
Entertainment Weekly
“Each short story is an idea bomb with a candy coating of human drama, wrapped in shiny
tech tropes and ready to blow your mind.
Overclocked
is sf info-warfare ammunition of the
highest caliber, so load up, move out, and take no prisoners…”
SFRevu
“The appealing characters, snappy writing and swift pace will surely tempt the younger
and/or geekier sections of the sf audience.”
Kirkus
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