Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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Tags: Contemporary, Novel, Science Fiction
ISBN:0765312786
A mix of Borges-worthy fantasy with nethead-bellhead debates. It works.
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This work, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow, is distributed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 License.Previously published by Tor Books.
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About the Author
Born in 1971 to a Canadian family whose values included political activism, Cory Doctorow devoted much of his youth to activist and social justice causes. After leaving college without a degree, he went on to serve pivotal roles in the field of copyright in the electronic and internet age. In 2003, he published his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was greeted with much success from the science fiction community. A sought-after lecturer, Doctorow recently held the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He has since published other works, among them a short-story collection entitled A Place So Foreign and Eight More, and a novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
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For the family I was born into and the family I chose. I got lucky both times.
Alan sanded the house on Wales Avenue. It took six months, and the whole time it was the smell of the sawdust, ancient and sweet, and the reek of chemical stripper and the damp smell of rusting steel wool.
Alan took ...
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Copyright 2005 by Cory Doctorow.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0
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4/5
Reviewed by earthyannie on Jul 6, 2011
A fractured fairy tale, and a plate o' shrimp
Protagonist: the outsider who, as Doctorow said in 'Craphound', loves our culture's cast-offs and sees them as poems. The structure, also, is bits and pieces interestingly rearranged. My favorite part: the cast of characters- brothers A through G and his father the mountain, his mother the washing machine. The day I finished reading this, I picked up Gene Wolfe's The Evil Guest..and there one character took another one to a sentient mountain whose wife was 'let's just say a laundress'. Thanks for the shrimp dinner!
4/5
Reviewed by earthyannie on Jul 6, 2011
fractured fairy tale
Protagonist: the outsider who, as Doctorow said in 'Craphound', loves our culture's cast-offs and sees them as poems. The structure, also, is bits and pieces interestingly rearranged. My favorite part: the cast of characters- brothers A through G and his father the mountain, his mother the washing machine. The day I finished reading this, I picked up Gene Wolfe's The Evil Guest..and there one character took another one to a sentient mountain whose wife was 'let's just say a laundress'. Thanks for the plate o' shrimp!
3/5 
Reviewed by butterfly53 on Sep 13, 2010
Kind of weird
Weird book, but it definitely kept me coming back! I cannot even describe the story. You just have to read it for yourself.
4/5
Reviewed by BillSeitz on Jun 25, 2008
Really freaky but I really liked it
You don't get this mix, of the surreal with real-world public-policy, from too many people
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Ratings for 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town' by Doctorow, Cory
| benaud |  | 2011-11-17 | |
| BillSeitz | | Read review | 2008-06-25 |
| bswarner | | 2010-07-29 | |
| butterfly53 | | Read review | 2010-09-13 |
| CAYLOG |  | 2009-01-21 | |
| cplater | | 2009-03-19 | |
| dave_fisk | | 2008-09-12 | |
| earthyannie | | Read review | 2011-07-05 |
| Jamie.Rich | | 2010-07-15 | |
| jbutcher | | 2012-02-19 | |
| just_jeepin | | 2013-02-13 | |
| Khyarete | | 2008-09-05 | |
| kittnpie | | 2011-09-27 | |
| lynn2007 | | 2008-10-07 | |
| nyxvlad | | 2008-09-25 | |
| tpowen | | 2009-06-11 |
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