Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to get bitten by a zombie? To live through a bioweapon attack? To have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow’s collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology, and its various uses, run amok. And yes, there is a story about zombies, too.

Contents:
* Printcrime (2006) / short story by Cory Doctorow
* When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006) / novelette by Cory Doctorow
* Anda’s Game (2004) / novelette by Cory Doctorow
* I, Robot (2005) / novelette by Cory Doctorow
* I, Row-Boat (2006) / novelette by Cory Doctorow
* After the Siege (2007) / novella by Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old and sold several stories followed by the publication of his story Craphound in 1998.