Walkaway
by Cory Doctorow
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Pub Date Apr 25 2017 | Archive Date May 24 2017
HarperCollins Publishers Australia | Head of Zeus
Description
In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, 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 – food, clothing, shelter – 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, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, 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 – a war that will turn the world upside down.
Advance Praise
• Cory Doctorow's first adult novel since 2009
• Doctorow has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards
• And been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards
PRAISE
• 'Is Doctorow's fictional Utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we'll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we're going to have to fight for it' Edward Snowden
• 'The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. A wonderful novel' William Gibson
• 'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers, because he’s also a public intellectual in the old style: he brings the news and explains it, making clearer the confusions of our wild current moment ... In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more thought-provoking and more fun.' Kim Stanley Robinson
• 'Cory Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunct faculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture and zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it' Neal Stephenson
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781786693068 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
