Cory Doctorow
1) The bezzle
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no...
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
3) Walkaway
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza ― known to his friends as Hubert, Etc ― was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be ― except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After...
4) In real life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
xii, 175 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from...
5) For the Win
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of “gold farmers” toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money.
Mala is a brilliant...
Mala is a brilliant...
6) Homeland
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.
A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus' hacktivist past lands
...Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. The splintery metaconsciousness...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marcus, aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco....
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco....
10) The lost cause
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster...