In Doctorow’s third novel, Alan helps his friend Kurt provide free wireless to their whole neighborhood in Toronto through a dumpster diving scheme. Not quite human himself (his father is a mountain and his mother a washing machine), Alan also befriends his unusual neighbor Mimi, whose boyfriend amputates her wings every three months.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction writer, digital-rights activist, and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing. His first novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, was the first book ever published under a Creative Commons license. His bestselling novel Little Brother (2008), was nominated for a Hugo Award. He is a contributing writer at Wired, has a regular column in Popular Science, and is the author of more then 15 books of fiction and non-fiction.
