Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment, lives up to the promise of the subtitle. Although the stories are about our present moment, the here and now we live in, the world Cory Doctorow creates is just ahead of us; it is the outer reaches where our present moment touches the future. The author does a great job on this count.
The stories, or novellas, are too long. I get the sense that Doctorow could have done this work better with less. Some of the stories end on a bizarre note of hope, which does not mesh well with the overall tone of the collection. So, that comes as a disappointment, as so much else is done so well here.
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