num_pages: 512
description: In Watchlist some of todays most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to meditate on and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret T.C. Boyle Robert Coover Aimee Bender Jim Shepard Alissa Nutting Charles Yu Cory Doctorow and many more WATCHLIST unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched?In Doctorows eerily plausible Scroogled the US has outsourced border control to Google on the basis that they Do Search Right. In Lincoln Michels Our New Neighborhood a planned suburban communitys Neighborhood Watch program becomes an obsessive nightmare. Jim Shepards haunting Safety Tips for Living Alone imagines the lives of the men involved in the US governments fatal attempt to build the three Texas Tower radar facilities in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. Randa Jarrars Testimony of Malik Israeli agent #287690 is a sweet and deftly handled story of xenophobia and paranoia reminding us that such things arent limited to the West (Sabotage Reviews) and Alissa Nuttings The Transparency Project is a creative speculative exploration of the future of long-term medical observation.By turns political apolitical cautionary and surreal these stories reflect on what its like to live in the surveillance state.
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title: Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest
publisher: Catapult