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  Eastern Standard Tribe (Paperback) By (author) Cory Doctorow

  

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  Short Description for Eastern Standard TribeNow in softcover, the second novel from one of the hottest writers in modern SF is a story of madness and betrayal, of society after the End of Geography, and of the intangible factors that define man as a species, as a tribe, as individuals.
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  • Publisher: Tor Books
  • Published: 30 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 223 pages
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  • Categories: Science Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780765310453 ISBN 10: 0765310457
  • Sales rank: 398,414

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Full description for Eastern Standard Tribe

• A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love. Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain....