I like this! Thank you, Paul. Love Cory Doctorow, plus I always wondered what you English majors were thinking and you're giving me insight.

(I've been a French major and a German major but never a fiction major.)

This is old, but what the hell is Free Energy? It's clearly one of the fundamental underpinnings of the Bitchun Society, but its only mention is a throwaway line in the prologue. Probably wise, since I doubt the author has any idea how it works either.