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21) Context
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English
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One of the Web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy maker verse to excoriating Apple for dumbing down technology while creating an information...
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English
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Now available for the first time with two additional stories!
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its various uses-run amok.
23) In real life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
175 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anda is a girl gamer and her favorite game is a massively multiplayer called Coarsegold Online. While playing Coarsgold Online she meets and befriends a gold farmer she knows collecting valuable items and selling them to other players for cash is forbidden but what if the person's livelihood is involved?
24) The Internet Con
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English
Description
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility...
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Español
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'Radicalizado' son cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción urgentes sobre el presente y el futuro de Estados Unidos en un solo libro. Contadas a través de una de las voces del género más en boga de nuestra generación, 'Radicalizado' es una oportuna colección compuesta por cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción conectadas por visiones sociales, tecnológicas y económicas de la actualidad y de lo que podría ser Estados Unidos en un futuro cercano. 'Pan...
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English
Description
*The second novella from Radicalized*
Model Minority is the story of a Superman-like figure who attempts to rectify the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims.
Listen to Radicalized's other novellas:
Unauthorized Bread
Radicalized
Masque of the Red Death
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Cory Doctorow's four futuristic novellas are aided by four well-chosen narrators who each capture the essence of their given story." — AudioFile Magazine
From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one audiobook.
Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely
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Series
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English
Description
Celebrating the legacy of the Dark Knight, DETECTIVE COMICS: 80 YEARS OF BATMAN follows the best-selling ACTION COMICS: 80 YEARS OF SUPERMAN. Curated by guest editor Paul Levitz, it features reprints of the Dark Knight's most memorable adventures, from his first appearance to the debuts of Robin, Batwoman, Bat-Mite and Batgirl, as well as villains including Two-Face, the Riddler, Clayface, Man-Bat and more.
And, published for the first time anywhere:...
30) Walkaway
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.
But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has nowhere left to be―except
...31) Little Brother
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (11hr.,55min.,31sec.))
Language
English
Description
Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong...
32) For the Win
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Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (16hr.,32min.,34sec.))
Language
English
Description
At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of "gold farmers" toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money.Mala is a brilliant fifteen-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (18hr.,31min.,3sec.))
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times , a major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America Perry and Lester invent things-seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the "New Work," a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester's. Together, they transform the...
34) Pirate Cinema
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (13hr.,5min.,36sec.))
Language
English
Description
Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he downloads from the net. In the near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; if you're caught three times, your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year, with no appeal.Trent is sure this won't happen to him; he's too clever. Except it does, and it nearly destroys...
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English
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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.
Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick it obscures the sun.
The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human
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Series
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 1
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English
Formats
Description
Introduces Night Vale, a town in the American Southwest where every conspiracy theory is true, and to the strange but friendly people who live there.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (16hr.,58min.,49sec.))
Language
English
Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.From the Book of Revelation to The Road WarriorWastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre’s core.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish. Based on the internationally acclaimed book "HANA'S SUITCASE " which has been translated into 40 languages, the film is an effective blend of documentary and dramatic techniques.
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.
In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin