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Overclocked

Stories of the Future Present

By Cory Doctorow

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| Paperback | 9781560259817

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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 mindbendiContinue

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.

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  • Overclocked

    We live in a present that is essentially unknowable. Every day brings changes on such a scale, at such a speed that no single human can possibly hope to keep track of them. We're thirty years past 'Future Shock'. We live in a constant state of presen ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1560259817
  • ISBN-13: 9781560259817
  • Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
  • Pub date: Jan 11, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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