Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Doctorow, Cory

| 2007

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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 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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Maria B Hansson

2010-04-06

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Jag har bara läst novellen "I,Robot" ur den här novellsamlingen, för den fanns att ladda ner via Stanza till iPhone. Bra skriven sci-fi. Tänkvärd. Hur fungerar själen tro? Kan vi bli halvrobotar utan att tappa vårt "jag"? Och hur vill vi ha vår framtid?