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l33tminion) wrote2006-08-24 12:35 am
l33tminion) wrote2006-08-24 12:35 am
DDR and Doctorow
I finally beat DXY! on Heavy. And I got farther than before on So Deep (I can read and do the steps, now, but I don't have the endurance to make it through the whole song).
I've been reading a lot of books by Cory Doctorow lately. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was very good. The Bitchun Society (the future society of the book) is radical, nifty, and weird, centering around technologies like a reputation-based currency and immortality by cloning and backup.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (which I'm currently in the middle of) is substantially weirder. The main character's father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine, and the level of strangeness doesn't really go down substantially from there. (Also, why the heck is this categorized as science fiction? It's fantasy. It doesn't even span the genres. Yes, there is the aforementioned washing machine, and one of the subplots has to do with wireless routers, but those passed out of the realm of science fiction a while ago. (That was a rhetorical question, since I know it's because Doctorow is labeled as a "science fiction author". Still...))
I've been reading a lot of books by Cory Doctorow lately. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was very good. The Bitchun Society (the future society of the book) is radical, nifty, and weird, centering around technologies like a reputation-based currency and immortality by cloning and backup.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (which I'm currently in the middle of) is substantially weirder. The main character's father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine, and the level of strangeness doesn't really go down substantially from there. (Also, why the heck is this categorized as science fiction? It's fantasy. It doesn't even span the genres. Yes, there is the aforementioned washing machine, and one of the subplots has to do with wireless routers, but those passed out of the realm of science fiction a while ago. (That was a rhetorical question, since I know it's because Doctorow is labeled as a "science fiction author". Still...))