![]() The people in these centenals vote to choose which global government to join. It’s about a near-future world where 20 years ago, the peoples of the world split off from traditional countries into small local voting blocks of 100,000 people known as centenals. Infomocracy by Malka Older is a political science fiction thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Continue reading “Autonomous by Annalee Newitz” → Jack normally sells recreational drugs like Zacuity so that she can afford to synthesize and distribute necessary drugs to people who can’t afford them, but this time Zacuity is causing people to become addicted to work to the point where they die because they can’t stop to take care of bodily functions. ![]() They have a lot of experience in tech journalism and it comes to bear in this debut scifi thriller.Īutonomousis a woven story with two plotlines: one follows a pharmaceutical pirate named Jack, and the other follows a robot named Paladin and a spy named Eliasz who are trying to capture Jack on behalf of the International Property Coalition (IPC).Īt the beginning of the story, Jack has just sold a bunch of reverse-engineered Zacuity, a productivity drug invented by the pharmaceutical firm Zaxy, on the black market. I’ve seen Annalee Newitz speak a bit in SF and I was a big fan of i09 while that was still running so I was really curious what they would write. ![]()
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