Helpful Score: 2
Cory Doctorow will not steer you wrong! ;-) He highly praised this book on BoingBoing and I decided to read it, even though I'd really disliked McDonald's Desolation Road.
This is a completely different kind of book; I'd never have guessed it was the same author. And it is really an excellent book: thought-provoking, timely, complex, and well-structured.
It follows the events of several days among a group of characters who live or work in an old building in a near-future Turkey, who are affected my the concatenation of events following a baffling act of terrorism - involving political plots, shady business dealing, art dealing, nanotech research, religion, love, and more...
This is a completely different kind of book; I'd never have guessed it was the same author. And it is really an excellent book: thought-provoking, timely, complex, and well-structured.
It follows the events of several days among a group of characters who live or work in an old building in a near-future Turkey, who are affected my the concatenation of events following a baffling act of terrorism - involving political plots, shady business dealing, art dealing, nanotech research, religion, love, and more...
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