Rob Hart's new novel is The Warehouse.At Tor.com he tagged "five books that mold our current state of constant anxiety into thoughtful, timely, terrifying fiction." One title on the list:
Infomocracy by Malka OlderRead about another entry on the list.
Remember when we thought our elections were fair and free of interference by hostile nations? Oh what a world that was. It could be worse, like in Infomocracy, about an attempt to streamline the process by creating micro-democracies with the help of a search engine monopoly.
Older brings an extensive resume as an academic and international aid worker to this whip-smart debut that examines and challenges the core concepts of democracy. And it reinforces some disturbing truths—like the way technology is supposed to make things better and usually makes it worse, and the way information, in the wrong hands, can be used to manipulate rather than inform.
Infomocracy is among Jeff Somers's eighteen SFF novels that get serious about economics and fifty science fiction essentials written by women, Emily Wenstrom's eight science fiction novels that explore the human dilemma, Joel Cunningham's twelve science fiction & fantasy books for the post-truth era, and Sam Reader's six most intriguing political systems in fantasy and science fiction.
The Page 69 Test: Infomocracy.
--Marshal Zeringue
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