![]() ![]() There are a couple of villains: Freddy, a British gossip-columnist expat, described for the first couple of pages as "Rat-Tooth," and Sammy, a Disney executive. Squaring the circle are Landon Kettlewell, a "New Work" pioneer, whose Kodacell Corporation takes their products to market, and Suzanne Church, a Silicon Valley journalist, who quits her job to chronicle the duo's adventure in the new media. Makers deals with the business adventures of Perry Gibbons and Lester Banks, inventor-entrepreneurs, committed to making cool new things. What Doctorow has to say is important and interesting, but the fiction gets in the way. It's the least interesting aspect of the book. ![]() ![]() The book is in the tradition of works such as Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net (1988) or David Brin's Earth (1991). There's even a rousing humping scene (pp. There are themes, scenes, acts, conflicts, dénouements, and an epilogue. In a sense, Makers is a novel the way Magritte's pipe is a pipe. ![]()
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