Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment
Ratings26
Average rating4.1
Like all collections of short stories Radicalized is a mixed bag.
I really liked the first story starts with someone getting the oh so relatable urge to unlock a functionality that has been taken away for fun and profit, it was cute in a way and the characters were endearing.
The second story revolves around a superhero from another planet who messes up his public image by getting aligned with a victim of police brutality, that story felt like it has been told before and while it wasn't unpleasant to read it was just too reminiscent of other extremely similar stories to be any kind of memorable.
The third story is about people getting radicalized into terrorism by inhumane insurance companies dictating through refusal of coverage that people should just die probably the most powerfully written story of the book but also the one that seemed the least likely.
The last story turns the survivalist fantasy on its head, it was too long for what it had to say in my opinion.
All in all it was good book, just not a very memorable one.
Four dystopian novellas. I really like Doctorow's writing and he brings up some very important issues. My favourite out of these four is probably Unauthorized Bread.
3 short novellas of potential near futures and a superhero/police brutality thing. If I'd just read the first one maybe I'd have more hope for humanity but now I'm bluuuuue.