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Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment
Radicalized Four Tales of Our Present Moment Author:Cory Doctorow Four dystopian novellas set in the near-future. If you want a better future tomorrow, you're going to have to fight for it today. In Cory Doctorow's new novellas, corporations provide welfare: but only if you use their DRM'd devices: toasters that won't toast third-party bread, dishwashers that won't wash third-pa... more »rty dishes. Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is a timely novel comprised of four science fiction novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future.
Contents:
Unauthorized Bread (2019) / novella by Cory Doctorow: a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper.
Model Minority (2019) / novella by Cory Doctorow: a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims.
Radicalized (2019) / novella by Cory Doctorow: a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer.
The Masque of the Red Death (2019) / novella by Cory Doctorow: taking on issues of survivalism versus community.