A multi-generational SF thriller about the momentous changes coming in the next hundred years: an epic tale of revolution, love, war, and the end of death.

The tech may be more advanced, but the politics feel familiar... The overwhelming message of Walkaway is hope [and] right now, that could not feel more timely'

Proper science fiction. A warning of our times. An investigation of what it means to be a human today and where the future might take us

Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunct faculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/ LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture and zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it

The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of. A wonderful novel

A hard-edged, intelligent look at our immediate future and the high and low points of human nature, incisive, compelling and plausible

Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers... In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more thought-provoking and more fun'

Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we'll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we're going to have to fight for it

A beautifully done utopia, just far enough off normal to be science fiction, and just near enough to the near-plausible, on both the utopian and dystopian elements, to be eerie as almost programmatic... a sheer delight'

Takes the idea of personalities as computer programs to its logical consequence, and envisages multiple copies of the same program – the same person – running simultaneously on different networks. This is the closest anyone will ever get to the fantasy of cloning identical human beings

A bravura piece of storytelling, and marks a powerful shift in awareness and understanding, not just for the characters but undoubtedly for the readers themselves

Mr Doctorow's philosophy is passionately argued... and the thinking is lively'

Cory Doctorow is one of the most exciting writers of Science Fiction currently working

At times, Doctorow's worldview and the day-after-tomorrow world he's created in Walkaway seems a bit rosy, too trusting of human nature and digital innovation. But he's no more a wide-eyed hippie than an Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian, and his view of humanity is complex

[Doctorow's] fullest, most important book so far, and a lot of fun even to disagree with

I came to care about its characters. Doctorow somehow managed to make me feel their fear, hope, and love

This is the best Cory Doctorow ever... Walkaway is a sprawling, ominous and important work of a kind one rarely sees'

Doctorow is an assured writer and can write to convince... Definitely a novel to set the brain cells buzzing'

Doctorow mixes his expert knowledge of issues involving abusive threats to new technologies and online civil liberties with a writing style that attracts readers across generations and genres. What results is a page-turner that explores a revolutionary response to the bourgeois elite

[It is] fascinating for what Doctorow has taken from our world and run into the not-so-distant future with... He is also very good at characterisation'

An exciting, thought-provoking read that any Cory Doctorow fan is sure to enjoy. This one certainly did!

Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for the Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Locus. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.

Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for the Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Locus. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.