Midnight
Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow ! - Bruce Sterling Author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction * Cory Doctorow strafes the senses with a geekspeedfreak explosion of gomi kings with heart , weirdass shapeshifters from Pleasure Island and jumping automotive jazz joints . If this is Canadian science fiction , give me more . - Nalo Hopkinson Author of Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring * Cory Doctorow is the future of science fiction . An nth-generation hybrid of the best of Greg Bear , Rudy Rucker , Bruce Sterling and Groucho Marx , Doctorow composes stories that are as BPM-stuffed as techno music , as idea-rich as the latest issue of NEW SCIENTIST , and as funny as humanity 's efforts to improve itself . Utopian , insightful , somehow simultaneously ironic and heartfelt , these nine tales will upgrade your basal metabolism , overwrite your cortex with new and efficient subroutines and generally improve your life to the point where you 'll wonder how you ever got along with them . Really , you should need a prescription to ingest this book .