304 pages
Published March 19, 2019 by Tor Books.
rom 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 …
rom 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.
Me ha gustado. Muy centrado en EE.UU. pero de una actualidad que en algún caso no parecen distopías sino crónicas actuales.
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.
