The thing I loved about Pacific Edge is how good the people were, even as they got in each other’s way and fought with one another and made things miserable for each other. Robinson’s book is a tour-de-force character novel that is deeply compassionate about the way that people of good will and good faith can trip each other up. And it is ‘‘utopian,’’ in the sense that it is all set in a time/place where technology doesn’t threaten to get away from its creators and destroy them.Cory's talking about how PE influenced his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Cory Doctrow on KSR's Pacific Edge
Locus Online Perspectives | Cory Doctorow: Ten Years On:
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