Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Author(s): Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction

The repackaged trade paperback of Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets--now with a new cover

Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings--which 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 are sets of Russian nesting dolls.

Now two of the three dolls are on his doorstep, starving, because their innermost member has vanished. It appears that Davey, another brother who Alan and his siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge.

Under the circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to join a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet, spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles from scavenged parts. But Alan's past won't leave him alone--and Davey isn't the only one gunning for him and his friends.

Whipsawing between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read.


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Praise for SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN: 'A glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you've ever read.' Gene Wolf 'Fresh and unconventional ! Doctorow demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and everyday can coexist' Publishers Weekly Praise for Cory Doctorow: 'Fresh and full of thought-provoking ideas, a book about tomorrow that demands to be read now.' The Times 'I'd recommend 'Little Brother' over pretty much any book I've read this year. Because I think it'll change lives. It's a wonderful, important book' Neil Gaiman 'A cracking read' Guardian PRAISE FOR LITTLE BROTHER 'A well structured and superbly executed thriller with breakneck pacing and an emotional payoff to boot. Engaging, thought provoking, and at times harrowing.SciFi Now 'An entertaining thriller and a thoughful polemic on Internet-era civil rights ! a terrific read' New York Times 'A compulsive and chillingly credible read ! would make a great discussion for any reading group' New Books 'A tale of struggle familiar to any teenager, about those moments when you choose what your life is going to mean.' Steven Gould, author of 'Jumper'

Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Little Brother. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, and is the only author to have won both the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Campbell Award for best SF Novel of the Year. He is the co-editor of BoingBoing.net, writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus and has been named one of the internet's top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Cory Doctorow lives in London with his wife and daughter.

General Fields

  • : 9780007327959
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Voyager
  • : 0.306
  • : 08 July 2010
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Cory Doctorow
  • : 432
  • : 813/.6
  • : English
  • : Paperback