Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow.
Ummm. Magical realism meets the Internet?
Cory Doctorow writes cool stuff. I got a huge kick out of his earlier novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. And he’s one of the folks behind Boing Boing, one of my favorite collections of odd things on the Web. But like with Counting Heads, which I read last month, when I put down Someone Comes to Town I felt unmoved. There was a lot of weird, off-the-wall supernatural stuff in there, and hip, cutting-edge Internet stuff as well, but I couldn’t sympathize with the protagonist and the plot didn’t really seem to go anywhere. It was fun enough, but it’s not one I’d keep or recommend.