Radicalized: Four Novellas

Description: In Cory Doctorow's new novellas, corporations provide welfare: but only if you use their DRM'd devices: toasters that won't toast third-party bread, dishwashers that won't wash third-party dishes. It all started with Salima. Fresh out of a refugee detention centre in Arizona, she's housed in the exclusive Dorchester Towers. For the first time in months, she has her own bedroom, a bathtub she can lie down in if she squinches her legs and tucks her chin. But it's a tower block divided into 'us' and 'them': elevators with a poor-door and a rich-person door. Even the pettiest amenity is spitefully denied to subsidy tenants like Salima - then one day Salima's Boulangism toaster won't accept her overpriced Boulangism-approved bread. So she hacks into the toaster - with its USB ports and Ethernet jacks - to reprogramme and toast unauthorised bread. If she can hack a toaster, then maybe she can hack an elevator. Now it's a tower block that has decided to fight back...

Review: PRAISE FOR CORY DOCTOROW: 'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers' Kim Stanley Robinson. 'A wonderful novel: everything we've come to expect from Doctorow and more' William Gibson. 'A hard-edged, intelligent look at our immediate future' Adrian Tchaikovsky. 'A truly visionary techno-thriller' Kirkus.

Author Biography: Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for the Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Locus. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.

Four dystopian novellas set in the near-future from award-winning author and activist Cory Doctorow.