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Description
In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.
But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food, clothing, shelter – from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and... walkaway.
It's a dangerous world out there, the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators – animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it's war – a war that will turn the world upside down.
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Product details
| Published | 25 Apr 2017 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 512 |
| ISBN | 9781786693044 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The tech may be more advanced, but the politics feel familiar... The overwhelming message of Walkaway is hope [and] right now, that could not feel more timely'
SciFiNow
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Proper science fiction. A warning of our times. An investigation of what it means to be a human today and where the future might take us
Nudge
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Doctorow has authored the Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunct faculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/ LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture and zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it
Neal Stephenson
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The darker the hour, the better the moment for a rigorously imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of. A wonderful novel
William Gibson
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A hard-edged, intelligent look at our immediate future and the high and low points of human nature, incisive, compelling and plausible
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers... In a world full of easy dystopias, he writes the hard utopia, and what do you know, his utopia is both more thought-provoking and more fun'
Kim Stanley Robinson

























