Three books for the lockdown: Riot Baby, Send Pics, Abolish Silicon Valley
Channel: Cory Doctorow
Date: 2020-04-25

As part of the Author's Guild #SupportAuthors campaign, here's my pics for three new books to enjoy while you're stuck indoors:


Tochi Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby"
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/riot-baby/#Tochi-Onyebuchi
"An incandescent Afrofuturist science fiction novella that is so fleet-of-foot as it sprints from one character and time and setting to another that it's dizzying, whirling the reader through fierce bravery in the face of dystopia that uplifts and enrages simultaneously."



Wendy Liu's "Abolish Silicon Valley"
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/14/seize-the-means-of-computation.html
"Technologists all over the world are coming to grips with the ethical implications of their work and realizing that no amount of code can substitute for political engagement. Liu's memoir is a roadmap for that journey of realization (it helps that she's a sprightly, witty writer)."





Lauren McLaughlin's "Send Pics"
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/21/merciless-teens.html
"I read this book at a single sitting, and marveled at the economy and drive of its plotting, to say nothing of the artful weaving of deep themes into a crackling thriller. McLaughlin has merged politics with a cyber-heist plot in a way that is fierce and smart, and I'm not ashamed to say that I was crying and cheering by the end of it. "