eBook, 320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 4, 2019 by Head of Zeus.
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 …
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.
Me encantan los relatos de ciencia ficción y cómo cuentan tanto en pocas páginas. Estos 4 de Doctorow son geniales, distopías basadas en los problemas actuales de la humanidad y de Estados Unidos en particular
El subtítulo de "cuatro distopías muy actuales" de la portada no miente. El denominador común de estas historias es que, independientemente del nivel de fantasía que se proponga en cada una de ellas, todos son unos futuros terribles de los que desgraciadamente se pueden trazar sus orígenes hacia las miserias del mundo actual. Me quedo especialmente con la historia que da título a la colección. La más real, la más verosímil. Una historia sobre el sufrimiento causado por la privatización de la sanidad. Una historia que está en nuestras manos que sea sólo un relato de anticipación y no una profecía.
Los mejores relatos son el primero y el tercero, aunque el segundo y el cuarto no se quedan muy atrás, siendo todos ellos excelentes. Como reza el subtítulo son cuatro distopias muy actuales que en algunos casos podríamos estar ya viviendo.
