Unauthorized Bread

112 pages

English language

Published Sept. 8, 2027 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-22007-3
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4 stars (46 reviews)

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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Radicalized - edizione italiana

4 stars

Quattro racconti lunghi, quattro versioni distopiche del futuro prossimo, stile Black Mirror (che, tra parentesi, è diventato probabilmente l'opera più influente degli ultimi anni), di cui tre su quattro pienamente realistiche, ognuna delle quali ha una forte voce morale da parte dell'autore: non si limita a supporre un futuro brutto, ci dice chiaramente che ne pensa. Il primo racconto, plausibilissimo, parla di un futuro in cui tutti gli elettrodomestici sono pieni di DRM e della "ribellione" nell'hackerarli. Anche se ben scritto, Doctorow cade nel comune errore di pensare che l'hacking sia una cosa semplice che si impara leggendo due istruzioni sui forum, ed è un peccato. Il secondo, con una versione di Superman alle prese coi diritti civili e la violenza della polizia, è il meno interessante, sembra una storia scartata da Superman. Il terzo, il più americano, e che dà il titolo alla raccolta, alle prese con le assicurazioni …

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3 stars

The first story is a humorous immigrant poverty and internet-of-crap mashup that illustrates a social problem and explains a possible partial amelioration. The rest are darker, with less positivity and less humor as the author strains to deal with very near future fears that ring true enough. Needless to say, I enjoy Doctorow more for the former combo.

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