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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

By Cory Doctorow

Book information

Publisher
Running Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1560259817, 9781560259817
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
267 kB (273294 bytes)
Edition
1st Printing, Feb. 2007
Pages
304\0
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

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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