![]() Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. Though the story can be talky and didactic, fans of the author's earlier work will find it a winner. Cory Doctorow () is a science fiction author, activist. Doctorow, a noted free Internet advocate (and PW columnist), handles his topic with great passion, creating engaging and believably geeky characters who share his fervor for both the Web and the new forms of art and communication it has made possible. Goliath war against the establishment, hoping to free the Net for creative use by the common people. Running away to London, Trent falls in with a group of young, high-tech squatters and anarchists who begin a David vs. ![]() This gets his entire family barred from the Web for a year, rendering his parents virtually unemployable and derailing his sister's education. ![]() Set in a near-future England where Big Entertain-ment is pressuring Parliament into criminalizing illicit downloading and handing out jail sentences to those who do it, the novel concerns 16-year-old Trent McCauley who obsessively samples old films to create new works of art. Doctorow (Little Brother For the Win) returns with another down-and-dirty tale of technological guerrilla warfare. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |