Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now

This graphic-novel volume gathers together a six-issue comic series that adapts a group of speculative short stories by Cory Doctorow. Each tale is retold in sequential art, offering a range of near-future and high-tech scenarios with a critical edge.

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The stories probe how technology, surveillance and corporate power might shape ordinary lives. Each one stands on its own, while the collection as a whole shows the range of the source writing. Readers who prefer pictures to prose can take in the full run of adaptations in a single book.

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