Infinite Detail
by Tim Maughan · first published 2019
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A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet BEFORE: In Bristols center lies the Croft, a digital no-mans-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, its become a center of creative counterculture. But its fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York Citynow the apotheosis of the new techno-
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More modern / post cyberpunk maybe but would add Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan. I really liked the premise and the organic feel vs a lot of other science fiction. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374175412/infinitedetail
on “Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read” ↗If you can, give Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail a try. It's SF on what would happen if the Internet disappears, and goes quite deeply into collapsing supply chains.
on “Internet addiction and the habit of book reading” ↗Tim Maughan's award-winning dystopian / utopian sci-fi novel, Infinite Detail is set in Stokes Croft. It's not hard to imagine it one day it becoming the small anarchist post-collapse refuge of the novel. - http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/infinite-de... There…
on “UK, Bristol – Stokes Croft to Become a World Heritage Site” ↗