{"id":368,"date":"2006-09-03T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=368"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:05:18","slug":"14749-%c2%a0%c2%a0-cory-doctorow-someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"14749.&nbsp;(Cory Doctorow) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is an extreme\u00adly imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive and well-writ\u00adten nov\u00adel, pulling togeth\u00ader sev\u00aderal themes that would not nor\u00admally work well togeth\u00ader. Doc\u00adtorow com\u00adbines a real\u00adis\u00adtic rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of life in Toronto\u2019s pleas\u00adantly chaot\u00adic Kens\u00ading\u00adton Mar\u00adket neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood with night\u00admar\u00adish fan\u00adtasy ele\u00adments that have the feel\u00ading of the grim\u00admer parts or Norse, Ger\u00adman or Native Cana\u00addian folk\u00adlore, and throws in a lit\u00adtle cyber\u00adpunk, as well. These dis\u00adparate com\u00adpo\u00adnents are not set apart in blocks, but flow and blend into each oth\u00ader on a para\u00adgraph-by-para\u00adgraph, some\u00adtimes a sen\u00adtence-by-sen\u00adtence basis.<span id=\"more-368\">&nbsp;<\/span>I won\u2019t sum\u00adma\u00adrize the plot: it will just sound arbi\u00adtrar\u00adily grotesque, and will not give you any hint of the human\u00adity and the effec\u00adtive lan\u00adguage of the book. The book gives me some hope, because I was feel\u00ading that Sci\u00adence Fic\u00adtion writ\u00ading in North Amer\u00adica was mori\u00adbund, and this is an exam\u00adple of a return\u00ading vigour.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extreme\u00adly imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive and well-writ\u00adten nov\u00adel, pulling togeth\u00ader sev\u00aderal themes that would not nor\u00admally work well togeth\u00ader. Doc\u00adtorow com\u00adbines a real\u00adis\u00adtic rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of life in Toronto\u2019s pleas\u00adantly chaot\u00adic Kens\u00ading\u00adton Mar\u00adket neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood with night\u00admar\u00adish fan\u00adtasy ele\u00adments that have&nbsp;the&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=368\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}