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For the first book of #TechnicolorRainbow book club, let's read Cory Doctorow's Walkaway!

It's a techno utopian story about how the world in the near future has such economic inequality that the few super rich don't need the many poor in the post scarcity world, so the poor just leave that unequal world and start their own society with all the tech that destroyed the need to work.

As Neal Stephenson describes it:

“The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture...zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it.”

Figured this is a good first one as it's been talked about on fedi a bit.

Find a copy from your library, or friend. If you're buying a new digital copy, buy it from Cory's site, the money that would have gone to Amazon just goes to him.

https://craphound.com/shop/#walkaway

And if you really can't swing it, let us know and we'll find you a copy.

Use the tag and CW your posts to prevent spoilers.

Figure this will go through until the end of the year as people's schedules will be hectic with the holidays.

Don't really know, do we have one time near the end where we all talk? Thinks it's fine to just post when you want, don't want to lose your thought for the moment any way.