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“Older continues to argue, most convincingly, that controlling the flow of information to the government and the public is the most potent power there is…Carefully researched, prescient, thoughtful, and disturbing.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“A large cast of characters, including former Information operative Mishima, is caught up in two political intrigues…Great character moments, including Information employee Roz’s slow-building romance with a local sheik, and teammate Minzhe dealing with potential conflicts of interest due to his mother’s presence in a local government…will please returning fans.”
— Publishers Weekly
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Kinetic and gripping, the plot hurtles toward an electoral climax that leaps off the page.
— NPR
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Futurists and politics geeks will love this unreservedly.
— The New York Times
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This brilliant book is unquestionably one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history.
— The Huffington Post
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A futuristic world with eerie parallels to current events... [an] uncanny political thriller.
— The Washington Post
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Smart, ambitious, bursting with provocative extrapolations, Infomocracy is the big-data-big-ideas-techno-analytical-microdemoglobal-post-everything political thriller we've been waiting for.
— Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings
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A fast-paced, post-cyberpunk political thriller... If you always wanted to put The West Wing in a particle accelerator with Snow Crash to see what would happen, read this book.
— Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence
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A frighteningly relevant exploration of how the flow of information can manipulate public opinion...timely and perhaps timeless.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Older’s sparkling debut, the first full-length novel from the novella-focused Tor.com imprint, serves as both a callback to classic futurist adventure tales by the likes of Brunner and Bester and a current examination of the power of information.
— Publishers Weekly
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In the mid-21st century, your biggest threat isn’t Artificial Intelligence—it’s other people. Yet the passionate, partisan, political and ultimately fallible men and women fighting for their beliefs are also Infomocracy’s greatest hope. An inspiring book about what we frail humans could still achieve, if we learn to work together.
— Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep and the Virga saga