Radicalized

eBook, 320 pages

English language

Published Nov. 4, 2019 by Head of Zeus.

ISBN:
978-1-78954-110-6
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4 stars (1 review)

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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reviewed Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

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4 stars

Bello, mi ha sorpreso in positivo. Quattro storie che si mantengono in equilibrio tra circa-fantascienza distopica e realismo, lasciando a chi legge l'idea che manchi in fondo davvero poco per far coincidere la nostra realtà con quelle narrate qui, arrivando almeno in un caso (per ora?) a diventare profetiche. I temi sono tanti: disuguaglianze sociali, controllo dei propri dispositivi, razzismo sistemico e violenza della polizia, sistema sanitario statunintese e radicalizzazione online. L'autore li affronta con equilibrio e a tratti con un approccio intersezionale, senza essere eccessivamente didascalico, rendendo la lettura potenzialmente godibile su più livelli.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction