Cory Doctorow has just published an earlier novel, Walkaway, in which he imagines a future dominated by the rich. Doctorow does not pretend, then, that Walkaway works as a prophecy, but as a fantasy, as well as enjoyable, sobering.
"To imagine that today is yesterday, to do it through the lens of the future historian thinking back on who we are now, is very liberating and clarifying," he says. The novel confirms the intention and intention of our time and concerns our concerns: "We live in a time marked by the emergency of climate change and our concerns for our jobs"