| With a Little Help Contributor(s): Doctorow, Cory Efram (Author), Galen, Russell (Afterword by), Coulton, Jonathan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0557943051 ISBN-13: 9780557943050 Publisher: Cordoc-Co, Ltd OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 362 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anyone who grooved to the counterculture vibe of Doctorow's young-adult novels Little Brother (2008) and For the Win (2010) will embrace these stories heartily-no one can dole out technological cautionary tales while simultaneously celebrating technology as cunningly as Doctorow. This volume's single never-before-published story, "Epoch," is the standout, an ethically thorny but heartfelt update on the classic sf conceit of an AI that becomes too self-aware. Never one to avoid the jugular, Doctorow doesn't bother to assign Google an alias in "Scroogled"; the depiction of a world where we're all "Googlestalked" until we're "guilty of something" feels chillingly immediate. It's not always easy to warm up to Doctorow's purposeful characters, but it's easy to be swept up in their just-barely-futuristic travails of surveillance gone wrong and privacy shattered. Reading this on your iPhone? Then these stories are probably for you. -- Booklist |