Overclocked: Stories Of The Future Present

by Cory Doctorow

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Overclocked: Stories Of The Future Present

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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 five 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. The lead story 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.