Audiobooks by Cory Doctorow

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza (conocido por sus amigos como Hubert, Etc) era demasiado viejo para estar en esa fiesta comunista. Pero después de ver el desmoronamiento de la sociedad moderna, no le queda otro sitio donde estar, excepto entre la escoria de jóvenes descontentos que se pasan la noche de fiesta y desprecian a las ovejas que ven por la mañana. Después de conocer a Natalie, una heredera muy rica que intenta escapar de las garras de su represivo padre, los dos deciden renunciar por completo a la sociedad formal y marcharse. Después de todo, ahora que cualquiera puede diseñar e imprimir las necesidades básicas de la vida -alimentación, ropa, refugio- desde un ordenador, parece que hay pocas razones para trabajar dentro del sistema. Sigue siendo un mundo peligroso, las tierras vacías destrozadas por el cambio climático, las ciudades muertas ahuecadas por la huida industrial, las sombras que esconden a los depredadores, tanto animales como humanos. Sin embargo, cuando los pioneros fugitivos prosperan, más gente se une a ellos. Entonces, los caminantes descubren lo único que los ultrarricos nunca han podido comprar: cómo vencer a la muerte. Ahora es la guerra, una guerra que pondrá el mundo patas arriba. Fascinante, conmovedor y con un humor negro, Walkaway es un thriller de ciencia ficción multigeneracional sobre los desgarradores cambios de los próximos cien años... y las personas muy humanas que vivirán sus consecuencias.

Cory Doctorow (Author), Alan Bochm (Narrator)

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Red Team Blues

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He’s not famous, except to the people who matter. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life. Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.

Cory Doctorow (Author), Wil Wheaton (Narrator)

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Radicalizado (Radicalized): Cuatro historias de nuestro momento actual

‘Radicalizado’ son cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción urgentes sobre el presente y el futuro de Estados Unidos en un solo libro. Contadas a través de una de las voces del género más en boga de nuestra generación, ‘Radicalizado’ es una oportuna colección compuesta por cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción conectadas por visiones sociales, tecnológicas y económicas de la actualidad y de lo que podría ser Estados Unidos en un futuro cercano. ‘Pan no autorizado’ es una historia sobre la inmigración, la toxicidad de la estratificación económica y tecnológica, y los jóvenes y los oprimidos que luchan contra todo pronóstico para sobrevivir y prosperar. En ‘Minoría Modelo’, una figura similar a la de Superman intenta rectificar la corrupción de las fuerzas policiales que durante mucho tiempo creyó erróneamente que protegían a los indefensos... sólo para descubrir que sus esfuerzos afectan negativamente a sus víctimas. ‘Radicalizado’ es la historia de un levantamiento violento en la dark web contra las compañías de seguros, contada desde la perspectiva de un hombre desesperado por conseguir financiación para un medicamento experimental que podría curar el cáncer terminal de su esposa. La cuarta historia, ‘La máscara de la muerte roja’, se remonta al libro ‘Walkaway’ de Doctorow, abordando cuestiones de supervivencia frente a la comunidad.

Cory Doctorow (Author), Alan Bochm (Narrator)

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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Wi

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both. In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon’s use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook’s siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels’ use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are everywhere. By analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct “anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices. In the book’s second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work.

Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Attack Surface

Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture. But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family--including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists--Masha realizes she has to choose. And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt.

Cory Doctorow (Author), Amber Benson (Narrator)

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Poesy the Monster Slayer

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow presents a sweetly scary audiobook about a girl whose monster-catching activities delay her bedtime in Poesy the Monster Slayer. A monster slayer needs no bedtime! Once her parents are off to bed, Poesy excitedly awaits the monsters that creep into her room. With the knowledge she’s gained from her trusty Monster Book and a few of her favorite toys, Poesy easily fends off a werewolf, a vampire, and much more. But not even Poesy's bubblegum perfume can defeat her sleep-deprived parents! A Macmillan Audio production from First Second

Cory Doctorow (Author), Jessica Almasy (Narrator)

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Radicalized

'Cory Doctorow's four futuristic novellas are aided by four well-chosen narrators who each capture the essence of their given story.' - AudioFile Magazine From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one audiobook. Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely audiobook comprised of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future. Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. In Model Minority, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. Radicalized is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer. The fourth story, Masque of the Red Death, harkens back to Doctorow's Walkaway, taking on issues of survivalism versus community.

Cory Doctorow (Author), Lameece Issaq, Mirron Willis, Stefan Rudnicki, Wil Wheaton (Narrator)

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Radicalized: A Novella

*The third novella from Radicalized* This audiobook edition features Wil Wheaton reading the title novella, a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer. Listen to Radicalized's other novellas: Unauthorized Bread Model Minority Masque of the Red Death

Cory Doctorow (Author), Wil Wheaton (Narrator)

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Model Minority: A Radicalized Novella

*The second novella from Radicalized* Model Minority is the story of a Superman-like figure who attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless...only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. Listen to Radicalized's other novellas: Unauthorized Bread Radicalized Masque of the Red Death

Cory Doctorow (Author), Mirron Willis (Narrator)

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Masque of the Red Death: A Radicalized Novella

Cory Doctorow (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Novella

*The first novella from Radicalized* Unauthorized Bread is a tale of immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. Listen to Radicalized's other novellas: Model Minority Radicalized Masque of the Red Death

Cory Doctorow (Author), Lameece Issaq (Narrator)

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Overclocked: More Stories of the Future Present

Now available for the first time with two additional stories! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its various uses-run amok. "Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"-systems administrators-as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too. Plus, for the first time, this collection includes "Petard" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon." "Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of pop culture, here filtered through SF-colored glasses. Enjoy."-Neil Gaiman

Cory Doctorow (Author), Emily Woo Zeller, Fiona Hardingham, Jeffrey Kafer, Jim Meskimen, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, Paul Michael Garcia, R. C. Bray, Richard Powers, Various, Various Narrators, Various Narrators, William Hughes (Narrator)

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