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Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest
Contributor(s): Hurt, Bryan (Editor), Boyle, T. Coraghessan (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1936787415     ISBN-13: 9781936787418
Publisher: Catapult
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
- Fiction | Political
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2015951166
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.50 lbs) 512 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
"Including work by literary heavy-hitters... the anthology considers the act and weight of watching and being watched... and in Watchlist, these see-to-know quests range from funny to terrifying." --Los Angeles Magazine

In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, meditate on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, WATCHLIST unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched?

In Doctorow's eerily plausible Scroogled, the US has outsourced border control to Google, on the basis that they Do Search Right. In Lincoln Michel's "Our New Neighborhood," a planned suburban community's 'Neighborhood Watch' program becomes an obsessive nightmare. Jim Shepard's haunting "Safety Tips for Living Alone" imagines the lives of the men involved in the US government's fatal attempt to build the three Texas Tower radar facilities in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. Randa Jarrar's "Testimony of Malik, Israeli agent #287690" is "a sweet and deftly handled story of xenophobia and paranoia, reminding us that such things aren't limited to the West" (Sabotage Reviews) and Alissa Nutting's "The Transparency Project" is a creative, speculative exploration of the future of long-term medical observation.

By turns political, apolitical, cautionary, and surreal, these stories reflect on what it's like to live in the surveillance state.