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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
| Author: | Cory Doctorow |
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Blackstone Publishing, 2016 Easton Press, 2007 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Have you ever wondered what it's like to get bitten by a zombie? To live through a bioweapon attack? To have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending 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 cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies, too.
Table of Contents:
- Printcrime - (2006) - short story
- When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - (2006) - novelette
- Anda's Game - (2004) - short story
- I, Robot - (2005) - novelette
- I, Row-Boat - (2006) - novelette
- After the Siege - (2007) - novella
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In 2016, a revised ediition of this collection entitled Overclocked: More Stories of the Future Present was released by Blackstone Publishing, with the following additional stories:
- The Man Who Sold the Moon - (2014) - novella
- Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts - (2014) - novelette
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