Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory
Doctorow
Brilliant Post-Cyberpunk Novel From Internet Savvy Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe is a soothsaying jaunt into the
not-so-distant future, where 24/7 communication and chatroom alliances
have evolved into tribal networks that secretly work against each other in
shadowy online realms. The novel opens with its protagonist, the peevish
Art Berry, on the roof of an asylum. He wonders if its better to be smart or
happy. His crucible is a pencil up the nose for a possible homebrew
lobotomy. To explain Arts predicament, Doctorow flashes backward and
slowly fills in the blanks. As a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, Art is
one of many in the now truly global village who have banded together out
of like-minded affinity for a particular time zone and its circadian cycles. Art
may have grown up in Toronto but his real homeland is an online grouping
that prefers bagels and hot dogs to the fish and chips of their rivals who
live on Greenwich Mean Time. As he rises through the ranks of the tr ibe,
he is sent abroad to sabotage the traffic patterns and communication
networks in the GMT tribe. Along the way, he comes across a humdinger
of an idea that will solve a music piracy problem on the highways of his
own beloved timezone, raise his status in the tribe and make him rich. If
only he could have trusted his tightly wound girlfriend and fellow tribal
saboteur, he probably wouldnt be on the booby hatch roof with that pencil
up his nose. As a musing on the future, Doctorows extrapolation seems
entirely plausible. And, not only is EST a fascinating mental leap its a witty
and savvy tale that will appeal to anyone whos lived another life, however
briefly, online. --Jeremy Pugh
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Havent heard of Cory Doctorow before reading his recent novel, Eastern
Standard Tribe, but Im glad I have. This is a hilarious, quite engagi ng, and
well-written novel thats as irrelevant as Neal Stephensons Snow Crash,
and, maybe, just maybe, far more accessible. Doctorow is a most
perceptive observer of contemporary Internet culture, tweaks it up a bit,
and offers a near future world thats not so radically different from our own.
His chief protagonist, Art, an interface designer, comes across as an online
version of Job, replete with his own peculiar brands of bad accidents and
other hilarious mishaps. Without question, Doctorow is a relatively fresh
face in science fiction, and one destined to blaze his own particular path to
critical - and hopefully, commercial - success.
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