Walkaway

The tech may be more advanced, but the politics feel familiar... The overwhelming message of Walkaway is hope [and] right now, that could not feel more timely' * SciFiNow *
Proper science fiction. A warning of our times. An investigation of what it means to be a human today and where the future might take us * Nudge *
Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunct faculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/ LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture and zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it -- Neal Stephenson
The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of. A wonderful novel -- William Gibson
A hard-edged, intelligent look at our immediate future and the high and low points of human nature, incisive, compelling and plausible -- Adrian Tchaikovsky
Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers... In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more thought-provoking and more fun' -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we'll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we're going to have to fight for it * Edward Snowden *
A beautifully done utopia, just far enough off normal to be science fiction, and just near enough to the near-plausible, on both the utopian and dystopian elements, to be eerie as almost programmatic... a sheer delight' -- Yochai Benchler
Takes the idea of personalities as computer programs to its logical consequence, and envisages multiple copies of the same program – the same person – running simultaneously on different networks. This is the closest anyone will ever get to the fantasy of cloning identical human beings * Guardian. *
A bravura piece of storytelling, and marks a powerful shift in awareness and understanding, not just for the characters but undoubtedly for the readers themselves * National Post. *
Mr Doctorow's philosophy is passionately argued... and the thinking is lively' * Wall Street Journal *
Cory Doctorow is one of the most exciting writers of Science Fiction currently working * The Bookbag *
At times, Doctorow's worldview and the day-after-tomorrow world he's created in Walkaway seems a bit rosy, too trusting of human nature and digital innovation. But he's no more a wide-eyed hippie than an Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian, and his view of humanity is complex * LA Times *
[Doctorow's] fullest, most important book so far, and a lot of fun even to disagree with * Toronto Star *
I came to care about its characters. Doctorow somehow managed to make me feel their fear, hope, and love * Quill and Quire *
This is the best Cory Doctorow ever... Walkaway is a sprawling, ominous and important work of a kind one rarely sees' * Locus Online *
Doctorow is an assured writer and can write to convince... Definitely a novel to set the brain cells buzzing' * Nudge Book *
Doctorow mixes his expert knowledge of issues involving abusive threats to new technologies and online civil liberties with a writing style that attracts readers across generations and genres. What results is a page-turner that explores a revolutionary response to the bourgeois elite * Cascadia Magazine *
[It is] fascinating for what Doctorow has taken from our world and run into the not-so-distant future with... He is also very good at characterisation' * Concatenation *
An exciting, thought-provoking read that any Cory Doctorow fan is sure to enjoy. This one certainly did! * Shoreline of Infinity *