Fantasy blog he tagged fifty science fiction essentials written by women, including:Infomocracy, by Malka OlderRead about the other entries on the list.
Older’s debut novel imagines a world where the entire population is divided into groups of 100,000, known as centenals. Each centenal can vote for the government they wish to belong to—governments ranging from corporate-dominated PhilipMorris, to policy-based groups with names like Liberty. A global organization called Information seeks to police elections and ensure that the many governments keep their promises and play by the rules—and when a researcher for a government called Policy1st stumbles onto a conspiracy to rig elections, he’s teamed with an agent of Information as they struggle to find out the truth, expose the plot, and stay alive. Older’s fierce imagination and eye for detail make her future world entirely plausible, and her characters, believably flawed. It’s one of most promising debuts of recent years, and the sequels only further impress.
Infomocracy is among 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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