Cory Doctorow, the blogger immortalized in this xkcd comic
had posted an announcement when my book first came out — but he just finished his review copy and posted a kind review on BoingBoing. People admire Cory because he is funny and cool and a generally fascinating guy who appears already to live in a future that we are only dimly now coming to understand. But he’s also very smart and a good prose stylist. When you have just published a book, you are too close to it — you have just finished reading and proofing it so many times, that you have no idea what it says any more. But what he said I did is what I was trying to do. That’s encouraging.
You lost me with your claim that Cory Doctorow is a “Great Prose Stylist”. I don’t think even his Mother would claim that!
That makes me think that perhaps your judgement is influenced by political or ideological considerations, and may not be trusted.
In case you missed it, the xkcd cartoon is ironic.
Some minds need broadening, for sure.