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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.

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Sometimes, I’m in the mood for dystopias and want to imagine where the trends that Birkerts describes may take us. So I was pleasingly horrified by Shteyngart’s story of a near future where books are smelly embarrassments, people’s credit ratings are displayed on signs as they walk by, and Internet deprivation is grounds for suicide.

Oh, and I won’t be signing up for high-tech life extension procedures after seeing where that goes …

From Richard's list on tech skeptics with an imagination.

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