384 pages
English language
Published June 17, 2017 by Tor Books.
Walkaway is a 2017 science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Head of Zeus and Tor Books. Set in our near-future, it is a story of walking away from "non-work", and surveillance and control by a brutal, immensely rich oligarchical elite; love and romance; a post-scarcity gift economy; revolution and eventual war; and a means of finally ending death.
i really wish someone got Doctorow an editor and deleted the sex scenes
Reading this at the same time as Homo Deus by Yuval Harari puts an odd spin on the story, like binary stars in an eccentric orbit. Is it a techno-liberal fantasy, or a dataist rebellion? Maybe just let it provoke its own ideas and enjoy a ride with some different flavors of light and darkness. For someone who has walked away once or twice, it has a special appeal.
