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Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy. The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information's best agents question whether the data monopoly they've served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it's time to burn the world down and start anew. The Centenal Cycle #1 Infomocracy #2 Null States #3 State Tectonics
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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
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Subtly radical (except where it’s openly radical), this book and series continues to offer a kinetically involving narrative that can also make you think about our actual world today.
— RT Book Reviews on Null States, Top Pick (4.5 Stars) -
Carefully researched, prescient, thoughtful, and disturbing.
— Kirkus Reviews on Null States -
“Seriously inspirational for people who are genuinely involved in inventing the future.
— Craig Newmark, founder of CraigsList -
A riveting science fiction thriller that brings the future of democracy to vivid, divisive life... a hell of a good story.
— The Chicago Review of Books -
Subtly radical (except where it’s openly radical), this book and series continues to offer a kinetically involving narrative that can also make you think about our actual world today.
— RT Book Reviews, Top Pick (4.5 Stars) -
Kinetic and gripping, the plot hurtles toward an electoral climax that leaps off the page.
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Futurists and politics geeks will love this unreservedly.
— The New York Times Book Review -
This brilliant book is unquestionably one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history.
— The Huffington Post -
A futuristic world with eerie parallels to current events... [an] uncanny political thriller.
— The Washington Post -
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 -
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 -
A frighteningly relevant exploration of how the flow of information can manipulate public opinion...timely and perhaps timeless.
— Kirkus Reviews starred review -
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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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2018
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About Malka Older
Cassandra Khaw writes horror, press releases, video games, and articles about video games and tabletop RPGs. These are not necessarily unrelated items. Her work can be found in professional short story magazines such as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny, and the scientific journal Nature. Cassandra’s first original novella Hammers on Bone came out in October 2016. To her mild surprise, people seem to enjoy it.
About Christine Marshall
Christine Marshall is an actress, director, and designer living in Portland, Maine. She teaches for the Maine State Ballet and produces plays with her theater company, Mad Horse. In addition to audiobooks, she records the online version of the New Yorker.