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An Evening with Cory Doctorow

Thursday 25th May 2017
18:30 - 20:00 at Waterstones, Liverpool

An Evening with Cory Doctorow

Join us for an event not to be missed.

Award-winning science fiction writer, YA author, blogger, journalist and futurist, CORY DOCTOROW will be joining us to discuss his latest novel, WALKAWAY, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.

He'll be in conversation with Dr. Chris Pak (Science Fiction Research Association).

Blurb from the book
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Hubert 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.

But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be—except amo...ngst 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.

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.

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.

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.
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"Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." —William Gibson (author of Neuromancer)

Further details: 0151 709920

Liverpool Waterstones, Liverpool
Thursday 25th May 2017
18:30 - 20:00

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