Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
by Cory Doctorow
Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in modern-day Toronto who is dedicated to building a home in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him into contact with a house full of students and lay men in the neighborhood; it shows him that he has wings, including a young woman who reveals to him at a time of stress that he has wings, and that these grow back after each attempt to cut. He has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among its brethren there are a number of Russian nesting dolls. Of the three babies now nesting, two of them, Edward and Frederick, are on the doorstep - they are on their way to starvation because their most intimate scum, George, has disappeared. Another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, seems to be back... he is inclined to take revenge. Under these circumstances, it seems reasonable that Alan would embark on a visionary plan to swallow Toronto up with a free wireless internet connection; it's a plot led by a brilliant technopunk who builds hardware wonders from pieces thrown from city dumps. But Alan's past won't leave him alone, and Davey is just one of the forces that shoot for him and all his friends. For more information about this name, visit the official Cory Doctorow website.
