Replica reviewed Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling …
I Think I've Seen All This Before
3 stars
This book contains four separate novellas: - Unauthorized Bread (my favorite) - Model Minority - Radicalized - The Masque of Red Death
The stories started out very promising but they kind of deflated halfway through. They could have been shorter too (specially the first one), and there wasn't a lot more to tell. I expected more, to be honest. I feel it doesn't deliver anything new. For the most part I felt that each of them ended without providing a satisfying ending.
When this book was first published on 2019 I guess the themes and concepts within it would have been more impactful but right now, as I write this in 2025, reality has surpassed fiction in all fronts and few things surprise me anymore.
I give it 3 stars because they're well written pieces of fiction and I'm sure people getting started with science fiction or those who don't …
This book contains four separate novellas: - Unauthorized Bread (my favorite) - Model Minority - Radicalized - The Masque of Red Death
The stories started out very promising but they kind of deflated halfway through. They could have been shorter too (specially the first one), and there wasn't a lot more to tell. I expected more, to be honest. I feel it doesn't deliver anything new. For the most part I felt that each of them ended without providing a satisfying ending.
When this book was first published on 2019 I guess the themes and concepts within it would have been more impactful but right now, as I write this in 2025, reality has surpassed fiction in all fronts and few things surprise me anymore.
I give it 3 stars because they're well written pieces of fiction and I'm sure people getting started with science fiction or those who don't read a lot of it can definitely enjoy these stories.
