Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

<p><b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Cory Doctorow, <i>Radicalized</i> is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one book</b></p><p>Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, <i>Radicalized</i> is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. </p><p><i>Unauthorized Bread</i> is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper.</p><p>In <i>Model Minority</i>, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims.</p><p><i>Radicalized</i> is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer.</p><p>The fourth story, <i>Masque of the Red Death</i>, harkens back to Doctorow's <i>Walkaway</i>, taking on issues of survivalism versus community.</p>