![]() You will keep turning pages late into the night because this is the kind of fiction that creates space for truth to reveal itself. ![]() This is a novel about reinventing democracy and imagining new institutions for the internet age. Having established that dystopia is a state of mind and how to fix the internet, Doctorow uses Attack Surface to explore what it means to build a better future. Computers play a role as important as any other member of the diverse cast, and computing is treated with a rare technical rigor that reveals the extent to which our tools shape our lives and world. The story follows a self-taught hacker from San Francisco who helps build the American digital surveillance apparatus out of a genuine sense of patriotism, only to discover that she’s propping up exactly the kind of unjust, predatory system she’d set out to defeat. ![]() ![]() ![]() CORY DOCTOROW’S NEW NOVEL, Attack Surface, is inseparable from the zeitgeist - both are riven by insurrection, corruption, misinformation, and inequality - and the near-future it portrays illustrates how technology and politics are inseparable. ![]()
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