"Doctorow uses science fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into some of society's unlighted corners."
–New York Times
"Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar–a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)."
–William Gibson, author of Neuromancer
"Everything comes under Doctorow's microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way."
–Locus
"One of the genre's fresh new talents, one of the few who seamlessly mixes the future with the bizarre."
–Rocky Mountain News
"Doctorow shows us life from the point-of-view of the plugged-in generation and makes it feel like a totally alien world."
–Montreal Gazette