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With a Little Help

With a Little Help

by Cory Efram Doctorow
Publication Date: 01/12/2009

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Anyone who grooved to the counterculture vibe of Doctorow's young-adult novels Little Brother (2008) and For the Win (2010) will embrace these stories heartily-no one can dole out technological cautionary tales while simultaneously celebrating technology as cunningly as Doctorow. This volume's single never-before-published story, "Epoch," is the standout, an ethically thorny but heartfelt update on the classic sf conceit of an AI that becomes too self-aware. Never one to avoid the jugular, Doctorow doesn't bother to assign Google an alias in "Scroogled"; the depiction of a world where we're all "Googlestalked" until we're "guilty of something" feels chillingly immediate. It's not always easy to warm up to Doctorow's purposeful characters, but it's easy to be swept up in their just-barely-futuristic travails of surveillance gone wrong and privacy shattered. Reading this on your iPhone? Then these stories are probably for you. -- Booklist
ISBN:
9780557943050
9780557943050
Category:
Science fiction
Publication Date:
01-12-2009
Publisher:
Cordoc-Co, Ltd
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
362
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x21mm
Weight:
0.53kg

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