Radicalizado

Doctorow offers the reader four science fiction novellas about the present and future of America in one book. Told by one of the hottest genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection of stories connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near future. "Unauthorized Bread" is a story about immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden who fight against all odds to survive and prosper. In "A Model Minority," a Superman-like figure attempts to rectify the corruption of police forces that he long mistakenly believed were protecting the defenseless, only to find that his efforts take a toll on his victims. "Radicalized" is the story of a violent deep web uprising against insurance companies, told from the perspective of a man desperate for funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer. The fourth story, "The Masque of the Red Death", deals with the survival of the individual versus the community.