- Dystopias, Jury, Technology and civilization, Fiction
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
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Contemporary, epic, grave and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Tor
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765329110
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From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. 2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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