I recently rediscovered Cory Doctorow after having read little brother almost 10 years ago, I blazed through all the sequential books in the series and Martin Hench after. I read enshitification and have been checking out his blog on pluralistic. This is one of the first times I’ve absolutely fallen for an author in a while, and his writing and intelligence just floors me. I think it’s rare that you find such a genius in tech, politics, finance, humanities, as well as just quality fiction writing. Any authors that are similar or books that align are great! I typically don’t like generic detective fiction, even if it is a bit clever, but I feel as if his books are more technological growth/history/education first, and plot/tension/conflict second.
Any recs are appreciated, thank you!
by gingerboiii
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I’m not sure I’d quite call him comparable in writing style, but I think Neal Stephenson has a similar interest in culture/technology/big concepts. *Anathem*, *Cryptonomicon*, or *Readme* might be good places to start.
William Gibson might scratch a similar itch as well. The usual recommendation is the Sprawl cyberpunk stuff starting with *Neuromancer*, and as great as that is (*Neuromancer* is a top 5 novel of all time for me) I think the Blue Ant Trilogy has much stronger parallels with Doctorow; starts with *Pattern Recognition*.
Have you read *Radicalized* and *Walkaways* by the same author? They’re probably the best fictional explications of his worldview, where he thinks we’re going as a society, and how an “ideal society” might emerge