Radicalized

Four Tales of Our Present Moment

Cover Art for 9781789541090, Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 9781789541830
Publisher: Head of Zeus - GB
Published: 18 February, 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Editions:
10 other editions of this product

Four dystopian novellas set in the near-future from award-winning author and activist Cory Doctorow. In Cory Doctorow's new novellas, corporations provide welfare: but only if you use their DRM'd devices: toasters that won't toast third-party bread, dishwashers that won't wash third-party dishes. It all started with Salima. Fresh out of a refugee detention centre in Arizona, she's housed in the exclusive Dorchester Towers. For the first time in months, she has her own bedroom, a bathtub she can lie down in if she squinches her legs and tucks her chin. But it's a tower block divided into 'us' and 'them': elevators with a poor-door and a rich-person door. Even the pettiest amenity is spitefully denied to subsidy tenants like Salima – then one day Salima's Boulangism toaster won't accept her overpriced Boulangism-approved bread. So she hacks into the toaster – with its USB ports and Ethernet jacks – to reprogramme and toast unauthorised bread. If she can hack a toaster, then maybe she can hack an elevator. Now it's a tower block that has decided to fight back...

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