Radicalized

eBook, 320 pages

English language

Published Nov. 4, 2019 by Head of Zeus.

ISBN:
978-1-78954-110-6
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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.

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 


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3 stars

Doulle tres estreliñas ⭐ e non catro porque as dĂșas Ășltimas historias parecĂ©ronme algo mĂĄis frouxas, pero dĂ©ixanse ler mentras presentan escenarios non tan improbables.

As dĂșas primeiras parecĂ©ronme mellor compostas, con mĂĄis profundidade no relato e os personaxes mellor debuxados.

Fun comentando individualmente cada relato, mira na cronoloxĂ­a.

Si, o mĂĄis inquientante Ă© que son historias que adquiren verosimilitude hoxe, non a medio prazo.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction