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Like many of Doctorow's books, it is in the common domain and is available both in print and for free through electronic media.
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* SecondLove: [[spoiler: After Linda goes back with her "fucking ex" on the west coast and gets Art put in the pych hospital, he meets Caitlin.]]
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2004 TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture / NextSundayAD novel by CoryDoctorow. In the near future, online communities have become so common and frequented that to many people, the world is divided not by country borders, but by timezones. People's social circles are mostly restricted to these timezones, after all, it's hard to hold a conversation with someone over dinner when it's 4 in the morning where they are. The loose associations of people formed by this are referred to by their members as "Tribes". Tribers hold a loyalty to their tribes and some engage in cross-tribe warfare by infiltrating other timezones and undermining them.
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2004 TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture / NextSundayAD novel by CoryDoctorow.Creator/CoryDoctorow. In the near future, online communities have become so common and frequented that to many people, the world is divided not by country borders, but by timezones. People's social circles are mostly restricted to these timezones, after all, it's hard to hold a conversation with someone over dinner when it's 4 in the morning where they are. The loose associations of people formed by this are referred to by their members as "Tribes". Tribers hold a loyalty to their tribes and some engage in cross-tribe warfare by infiltrating other timezones and undermining them.
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2004 TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture / NextSundayAD novel by CoryDoctorow. In the near future, online communities have become so common and frequented that to many people, the world is divided not by country borders, but by timezones. People's social circles are mostly restricted to these timezones, after all, it's hard to hold a conversation with someone over dinner when it's 4 in the morning where they are. The loose associations of people formed by this are referred to by their members as "Tribes". Tribers hold a loyalty to their tribes and some engage in cross-tribe warfare by infiltrating other timezones and undermining them.
The protagonist, Art, is one such triber. He is from Toronto, but lives in London working for a IT firm. He and his friend Fede subtly work bugs into the user interfaces they design to make life hard for those on Greenwich time. At night, he chats with buds in New York and Massachusetts.
The book opens with Art narrating in first person on the roof of a psychiatric hospital, and is interspersed with him giving a third person tale of how he got there. The two plotlines converge midway through.
Like many of Doctorow's books, it is in the common domain and is available both in print and for free through electronic media.
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!! ''Eastern Standard Tribe'' provides examples of:
* CrashIntoHello: Kinda, Art gets to know Linda through buying her some coffee after hitting her with his car.
* DeusExmachina: Some have described Art's meeting of Dr Szandor as this.
* HowWeGotHere: The story begins with Art on the roof and has him recollecting the chain of events that led to it.
* MundaneDogmatic
* NextSundayAD: Communications technology is more advanced, but most of the world is the same.
* [[spoiler:SecondLove]]: [[spoiler: After Linda goes back with her "fucking ex" on the west coast and gets Art put in the pych hospital, he meets Caitlin.]]
* TheShrink: The doctors at the asylum are this, and Dr Szandor is something of one as he and Art get to know each other.
* {{Tsundere}}: Linda is [[ShapedLikeItself loving when she's loving]], but can get angry and difficult easily.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Somewhere between here and NextSundayAD
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first part of the book is divided between Art's story in the present and in the past.
* [[spoiler:TurnCoat: Fede]]
* WrenchWench: Caitlin is somewhat of an example of this.
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The protagonist, Art, is one such triber. He is from Toronto, but lives in London working for a IT firm. He and his friend Fede subtly work bugs into the user interfaces they design to make life hard for those on Greenwich time. At night, he chats with buds in New York and Massachusetts.
The book opens with Art narrating in first person on the roof of a psychiatric hospital, and is interspersed with him giving a third person tale of how he got there. The two plotlines converge midway through.
Like many of Doctorow's books, it is in the common domain and is available both in print and for free through electronic media.
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!! ''Eastern Standard Tribe'' provides examples of:
* CrashIntoHello: Kinda, Art gets to know Linda through buying her some coffee after hitting her with his car.
* DeusExmachina: Some have described Art's meeting of Dr Szandor as this.
* HowWeGotHere: The story begins with Art on the roof and has him recollecting the chain of events that led to it.
* MundaneDogmatic
* NextSundayAD: Communications technology is more advanced, but most of the world is the same.
* [[spoiler:SecondLove]]: [[spoiler: After Linda goes back with her "fucking ex" on the west coast and gets Art put in the pych hospital, he meets Caitlin.]]
* TheShrink: The doctors at the asylum are this, and Dr Szandor is something of one as he and Art get to know each other.
* {{Tsundere}}: Linda is [[ShapedLikeItself loving when she's loving]], but can get angry and difficult easily.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Somewhere between here and NextSundayAD
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first part of the book is divided between Art's story in the present and in the past.
* [[spoiler:TurnCoat: Fede]]
* WrenchWench: Caitlin is somewhat of an example of this.
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