Radicalized
Four Tales of Our Present Moment
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2019
- Category
- Short Stories, Adventure, Cyberpunk
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781250228581
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
- List Price
- $34.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781250229250
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $23.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781250777911
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $21.99
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Description
From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one book
Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future.
Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper.
In Model Minority, 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 is 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 fourth story, Masque of the Red Death, harkens back to Doctorow's Walkaway, taking on issues of survivalism versus community.
About the author
Cory Doctorow is a multi-award-winning science fiction author, technologist, activist and speaker. His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe and the recently released contemporary fantasy, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Editorial Reviews
Praise for Walkaway Is Doctorow's fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we'll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we're going to have to fight for it." - Edward Snowden
"The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we've come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more." - William Gibson
"The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it." - Neal Stephenson
"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers, because he's also a public intellectual in the old style: he brings the news and explains it, making clearer the confusions of our wild current moment. His fiction is always the heart of his work, and this is his best book yet, describing vividly the revolutionary beginnings of a new way of being. In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more thought-provoking and more fun." - Kim Stanley Robinson
"Thrilling and unexpected .A truly visionary techno-thriller that not only depicts how we might live tomorrow, but asks why we don't already." Kirkus (starred review)
"Doctorow has envisioned a fascinating world This intriguing take on a future that might be right around the corner is bound to please." - Library Journal "Memorable and engaging. Ultimately suffused with hope." - Booklist
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