What does the future look like? A brilliantly entertaining and
original novel about the end of the economy from the visionary
author of Little Brother. Perry and Lester invent things. All sorts
of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo
dolls that drive cars. They also invent an entirely new economic
system. 'New Work' is a New Deal for the technological era. Soon
barefoot bankers are criss-crossing the nation, microinvesting in
high-tech communal start-ups like Perry and Lester's. Together they
transform a country, and journalist Suzanne Church is there to
document it. But a new economic system requires a whole new belief
system - and there are plenty of non-believers out there. The New
Work bust puts the dot.com-bomb to shame and soon Perry and Lester
are out of funds and out of business. Down but not out, they go
back to what they do best - making stuff. But when a rogue Disney
executive grows jealous of their once more soaring popularity and
convinces the police that their amazing 3-D printers are being used
to run off AK-47s, things get very dark very quickly... This
brilliantly entertaining and original novel from the visionary
author of Little Brother fizzes with bold ideas about the future
and how our lives will look as part of it. But at its heart are
three characters, Perry, Lester and Suzanne, on an unforgettable
journey that will bring them together only to break them apart as
they each try to discover how to live meaningfully in an
ever-changing world filled with both beauty and horror - where some
things really are immutable...
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