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This is a weird and somewhat anachronistic book. Released somewhere around 2009 or 2010, it is very forward thinking with regard to 3D printing, builder robots, and automation. But at the same time it has references to defunct tech sites, things such as livejournaling and digg-dotting.
If you can get past the weird anachronisms, there's a really good story of collaboration and people coming together to do awesome things. It's also not a brief glimpse. We see the whole thing start to finish, over a literal lifetime of the characters. It's a story about friendship and community. And it's very good.
Also, I don't know if Doctorow has any sort of canon on this stuff, but I like to think of it as a distant past prequel to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
If you can get past the weird anachronisms, there's a really good story of collaboration and people coming together to do awesome things. It's also not a brief glimpse. We see the whole thing start to finish, over a literal lifetime of the characters. It's a story about friendship and community. And it's very good.
Also, I don't know if Doctorow has any sort of canon on this stuff, but I like to think of it as a distant past prequel to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.