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1786693070

Paperback Walkaway : a novel / Cory Doctorow

Author: Doctorow, Cory

Year: 2018

Interest category: Science fiction novels

Media class: Paperback

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2018

ISBN: 1786693070 9781786693075

Control number 1786693070

Description:

In a world wrecked by climate change, a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do. But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and walkaway. It's a dangerous world out there, the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators - animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, they are joined by others, building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it's war.

Science fiction, lcsh

SCF, Science fiction