Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
7 best books like Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (Cory Doctorow): The Future of Another Timeline, Fall, or Dodge in Hell, The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, Permanent Record, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Grand Dark, Perihelion Summer
The Future of Another Timeline
| Author | Annalee Newitz |
| ISBN | 0765392127 |
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0062458736 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge”...
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
| Author | Dan Carlin |
| ISBN | 0008340927 |
From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: History at the Extremes.
Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style...
| Author | Edward Snowden |
| ISBN | 1250237238 |
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
| Author | Richard Kadrey |
| ISBN | 0062672533 |
From the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison—a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 1250313783 |
Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning.
Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun...
