Radicalized [Doctorow, Cory]

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From ‚ 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. ‚ Show more