Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of...
Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of...
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Now available for the first time with two additional stories!
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his
formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending
sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its
various uses—run amok.
"Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber
sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games
all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual
money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"—systems
administrators—as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large,
from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too. Plus, for the first time, this collection includes "Petard" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."
About the Author-
Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus, and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were a New York Times bestsellers. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.
December 11, 2006 An unabashed promulgator of the Internet and its democratic potential, \t\t Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe) explores \t\t the benefits and consequences of online systems in this provocative collection \t\t of six mostly long stories. "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" is a moving \t\t chronicle of a widely dispersed network of techno-geeks laboring to keep the \t\t World Wide Web running as an epitaph to an earth devastated by a bioweapon \t\t apocalypse. In "After the Siege"—the bleak chronicle of a modern siege of \t\t Stalingrad—the horrors of war become fodder for a documentary film crew's \t\t reality-based entertainment. Two tales riff on classic SF themes: "I, Robot," \t\t in which Isaac Asimov's positronic bots are cogs in a dysfunctional future \t\t totalitarian state, and "Anda's Game," a brilliant homage to Orson Scott Card's \t\t Ender's saga, in which a role-playing enthusiast finds herself immersed in a \t\t surprisingly real world of class warfare fought online by avatars of game \t\t players. Most "meat"-minded readers will find much to savor. \t\t
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This audiobook is a strange beast to tackle. The stories offer a curious hybrid of future technology and present cultural idiosyncrasies, so it requires a certain breed of narrator to do it justice: by turns brooding and tongue-in-cheek, but always able to present the present-futuristic plots believably. Some of the performers achieve this; the others aren't unskilled, just not as consistently nuanced or energetic. One problem is that Doctorow includes a brief introduction to each story, and some narrators don't make it clear where the preface ends and the story begins. Lloyd James, Fiona Hardingham, Jeffrey Kafer, and Emily Woo Zeller stand out as particularly enjoyable performers. N.J.B. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
