wow. another A-Ma-Zing book from cory doctorow.
again he projects the future (this is science fiction after all) while managing to educate the reader about the past. in this case, he's covering economics, the forming of unions, pyramid schemes, and the social contract - all while setting his story on the international stage: india, china, the US and indonesia. and again his book is labelled Young Adult - which is the best audience to learn some of this stuff. think of 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down'... his exciting plots are more like a whole candy store.

i love how this author takes his subject matter seriously. he refuses to let Apple sell his novels because he disagrees with how Apple's digital rights management hobbles their competitors in perpetuity. in fact, he's put this whole book on-line, free for anyone to read. he believes copyright is only applicable to money making endeavors - NOT a way to control distribution of a product. and when people want to donate money to him on the website that hosts his book - he encourages that donation to go to his publisher, (promoting the business that sustains authors) or to librarians (whose funding is continuously shrinking).
what's not to like about this guy?