Name: Eastern Standard Tribe
ISBN: 9780007327942

Cory Doctorow

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 the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world. Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Art, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe--a secret society bound together by their sleep schedule and communicating via encrypted instant messaging--is incarcerated thanks to his friends and family, masquerading as consultants.

Almost DNF’d this twice… just tend to lose interest with completely unnecessary slurs. Story was fine. I think the concept seemed more interesting than the execution which was kind of thin on plot, or story, or character development… It was a short book, so I kept going because the main character is from Toronto and I am too and that never happens in sci fi (station eleven excepted) but it wasn’t really worth it tbh. I give short books a bit more leeway with character development and world building as a rule but there is no excuse for me to have not really clearly been able to tell my partner what this was a story about, or what the happens in the book, until like, the last chapter. I would have taken less nipple description in trade for a better outline of the “tribe” rivalries at any point in the book.

Eastern Standard Tribe

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