Walkaway by Canadian author Cory Doctorow, a recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a noted advocate for fairer copyright law reform, is a standalone post-scarcity science fiction novel, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Macmillan’s Tor Books.
This is their featured free eBook of the Month Club offer for April, and is being made free to help promote his latest release, the novella collection Radicalized.
The story is set in the near-future and explores the potential future of humanity in a post-scarcity world, taking place over the decades as disaffected people begin opting out of a dystopian surveillance state dominated by mega-rich elite and plagued by pollution and climate change, walking away to create a more utopian society with the help of increasingly advanced technology which takes care of their basic needs by gradually improving at transforming waste and litter into useful material, even as the ruling elite try to thwart the people leaving their control and exploit their inventions.
Offered through April 19th at just before midnight Eastern Time, available DRM-free to Canada & US only directly from the publisher.
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