Eastern Standard Tribe


Gelesen von Cory Doctorow

(4.2 Sterne; 10 Bewertungen)

Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.

Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.

The comm -- instant wireless communication -- puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by common time zones, less than families and more than nations. And Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people.

The world of next week is overflowing with ubiquitous computing, where an idea scribbled onto one's comm can revolutionize an industry. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted -- not happiness, not money, and, most certainly, not love.

Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain. Happiness or smarts? What's it going to be, Art?


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Nowhere in this fast paced SF story does he talk about the joys and necessity of gay transgendered sec. He ignores the plight of nonbinary BIPOCs as they face a world controlled by the evil Donald Trump. These are all good reasons to call him a raycyst. But the one truly unforgivable sin, is the way he published this work. Jeff Bezos and Audible.com are working hard to fight inequality and white privilege. By doing some creative commons licensing deal he is depriving good well respected publishers of the necessary monies to promote social justice throughout the universe. If he had only selected a real publisher the quality would have been tremdiusly improved. E.G. all the characters would be gay oppressed minorities. But the author instead chose to demonstrate his colonizing whiteness by selfishly denying the right of corporations to use his story to fight inequality. What a raycyst.


There's probably a good story in here, but I won't find out by listening to it. Cory Doctorow, like so many other authors, just goes too fast, and it's really frustrating. I felt like I was being rushed along. I couldn't sit back and enjoy the story, as I had ...


I wouldn't change the reading pace. I actually am thrilled by the pace.. you just have to listen fast. He doesn't waste my time. Trust me, audiobooks read too slow are WAYYYYY more annoying. Loved the book, Doc. Incidentally, you should use your clout as a goggle-wearing hot air balloon ...


It took me two tries to get into this book, just because of the reading/ performing style. But wow, great book and the style so totally fits the characters/ setting. The concept of being aligned with a time zone is intriguing also. Now, six months later, I find myself still ...


Terrific book! I loved the delicately styled plot and shifts back and forth from the asylum to the lead-up. Cory is a great reader; I'm glad I listened to this instead of reading it, as it made me laugh out loud quite a bit, but was also poignant and powerful ...


Excellent book. I had the same thought about the speed at which it was read. SLLLOOOWWWW would be annoying, but making sure the transition pauses are in there would help with flow. I love the concepts in this book. I swear, I think an agent provocatuer had a hand in ...


Story: good. Reading: fair. I enjoyed the story itself well enough. Not my favorite book ever, but it didn't turn me off, either. I really disliked the reading, though. The overall speed was fine, but I found it too monotonous and difficult to keep track of which character was speaking. ...


I loved everything about this book, the pace, the plot and the author reading it. I would love to hear another like it along the same lines. The story was easy to follow and the writing was great. Doctorow's fast pace and writing style is unequalled by writers today. His ...