{"product_id":"walkaway-paperback","title":"Walkaway - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus' Best Fiction of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWalkaway\u003c\/i\u003e is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle.\" --William Gibson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza--known to his friends as Hubert, Etc--was too old to be at that Communist party. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be--except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society--and walk away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life--food, clothing, shelter--from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it's war - a war that will turn the world upside down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, \u003ci\u003eWalkaway\u003c\/i\u003e is a multi-generation science fiction thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years...and the very human people who will live their consequences.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCORY DOCTOROW is special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother \u003c\/i\u003eand its sequel \u003ci\u003eHomeland \u003c\/i\u003ewere a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757309133088,"sku":"9780765392770","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e711f77909e96482d6ae481c8c8997e.webp?v=1780099259","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/walkaway-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}