Cory Doctorow - Radikálisok

Cory Doctorow is one of the most prominent members, activists and technological visionaries of the American science fiction community. His nearly twenty-year career as a writer resulted in many unforgettable and thought-provoking stories, for which he was awarded several literary prizes. In his latest volume, Radikálisok, we can read four short novels from him, in which he skillfully plays with the tools of science fiction and paints a sharp picture of America today.

Unauthorized Bread is about immigration and toxic socioeconomic stratification, and a young woman's dangerously illegal determination to fix her broken toaster. In Model Minority, a superhero finds himself way above his weight when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. The book's titular story chronicles a distraught husband, a darknet forum, and a violent uprising against the US healthcare system. And finally, in The Masque of the Red Death, a billionaire survivor and his followers try to hide from the world while social order collapses everywhere.