Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
Tom Doherty Associates
<p>Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years: an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.</p><p>Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Nicholas Espinoza&#8212;known to his friends as Hubert, Etc&#8212;was too old to be at that Communist party. </p><p> But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be&#8212;except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society&#8212;and walk away.</p><p> After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life&#8212;food, clothing, shelter&#8212;from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.</p><p> It's still...</p>