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« J’ai vécu assez longtemps pour voir le remède à la mort, assister à l’ascension de la Société Bitchun, apprendre dix langues étrangères, composer trois symphonies, réaliser mon rêve d’enfance d’habiter à Disney World et assister non seulement à la disparition du lieu de travail, mais du travail lui-même. »

Ainsi débute l’histoire de Julius, un jeune homme d’environ cent cinquante ans. Il a tout pour être heureux dans ce meilleur des mondes possibles, pourtant, sa vie va basculer, et l’utopie se transformer en enfer…

Avec ce premier roman, Cory Doctorow fait preuve d’un grand talent et se révèle comme l’un des auteurs de science-fiction à suivre ces prochaines années. est de ces œuvres denses et novatrices qui nous font prendre conscience que le futur, c’est déjà demain.

Zamach bombowy w San Francisco wywraca spokojny świat Marcusa do góry nogami. Aresztowany wraz z grupą przyjaciół przez Departament Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego trafia do tajnego więzienia. Gdy w końcu zostaje wypuszczony, odkrywa, że teraz żyje w państwie policyjnym, a każdy obywatel traktowany jest jak potencjalny terrorysta. Odtąd pragnie tylko jednego – zniszczyć DBW i odnaleźć zaginionego przyjaciela.

Mały Brat to porywająca powieść o walce z opresyjnym systemem w czasach virtual reality, cyberprzestrzeni i gier komputerowych. Wielokrotnie nagradzana (między innymi Nagrodą Campbella dla najlepszej powieści 2009 roku) i okrzyknięta fenomenem w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

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In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.

But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food, clothing, shelter – from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and... walkaway.

It’s a dangerous world out there: the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators – animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down.

Makers tells the story of a group of hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and reinvent the American economy after a total economic collapse, and who find themselves swimming with sharks, fighting with gangsters, and leading a band of global techno-revolutionaries.

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

Nature have generously granted me permission to reproduce this short-short story in full – click below to see the whole thing.

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He’s lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies… and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.

Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the care of a network of volunteer “ad-hocs” who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.

Now, though, it seems the “ad hocs” are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It’s only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it’s war: war for the soul of the Magic Kingdom, a war of ever-shifting reputations, technical wizardry, and entirely unpredictable outcomes.

The first thing you notice when reading Eastern Standard Tribe is that it suggests a methodology that Doctorow follows when building his novels: identify and research a cool new idea, add more and more cool bits to that idea, and then build into a story. In Down and Out the cool idea was reputation-based economies, and in Tribe it's a new kind of social group emerging that chooses to abandon its local standard time to live and work in stop with another more desirable one...

Damien Broderick, in a recent review, coined the rather amusing term "blogpunk," which seems to very much apply to Doctorow's work. It refers to the tendency of writers of online journals to accumulate fascinating factoids and then share them amongst themselves. And, to an extent, you can see that in Tribe. The novel's background is full of cool things — cars running on lard and such — but it's just that, background. At its heart, Tribe is a witty, sometimes acerbic poke in the eye at modern culture. Everything comes under Doctorow's microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way.

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