Radicalized : four novellas

"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers" —Kim Stanley Robinson If you want a better future tomorrow, you’re going to have to fight for it today. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near – all too near – future. ’Unauthorized Bread’ is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman’s perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster. In ’Model Minority’ a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. ’Radicalized’ is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system. The final story, ’The Masque of the Red Death’, tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society. Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Little Brother. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, and is the only author to have won both the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Campbell Award for best SF Novel of the Year. He is the co-editor of BoingBoing.net, writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus and has been named one of the internet’s top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Cory Doctorow lives in London with his wife and daughter. 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 Walkaway, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied If you want a better future tomorrow, you're going to have to fight for it today. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near – all too near – future. ' Unauthorized Bread ' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster. In ' Model Minority ' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. ' Radicalized ' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system. The final story, ' The Masque of the Red Death ', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society. 'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers' KIM STANLEY ROBINSON. 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. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near - all too near - future. ' Unauthorized Bread ' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster. In ' Model Minority ' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. ' Radicalized ' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system. The final story, ' The Masque of the Red Death ', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society