For The Win - Review
I've just finished reading For The Win - by Cory Doctorow.
It was preempted by The Fuller Memorandum while I was reading it, but it was pretty interesting too.
As quite usual with Doctorow's books, it is both sci-fi and contemporary, as well as having some social lesson implied.
The book focus on poor, developing countries (specially India and China) and the exploited workers, focusing mostly on the gold farmers. The games are imaginary, but the description of their mechanics, characters and battles is pretty cool by itself. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Zombie Mecha (a Zombie and Mechs MMORPG in the book) style game in the future.
The economy scams are particularly cool, too.
The ending is a bit on the dark side, but quite adequately so. It was nice of Doctorow not to chicken out and have a forced happy ending.
As usual for his books, you can download this one for free . If you want a paper book, you can use the link to Amazon above.
It was preempted by The Fuller Memorandum while I was reading it, but it was pretty interesting too.
As quite usual with Doctorow's books, it is both sci-fi and contemporary, as well as having some social lesson implied.
The book focus on poor, developing countries (specially India and China) and the exploited workers, focusing mostly on the gold farmers. The games are imaginary, but the description of their mechanics, characters and battles is pretty cool by itself. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Zombie Mecha (a Zombie and Mechs MMORPG in the book) style game in the future.
The economy scams are particularly cool, too.
The ending is a bit on the dark side, but quite adequately so. It was nice of Doctorow not to chicken out and have a forced happy ending.
As usual for his books, you can download this one for free . If you want a paper book, you can use the link to Amazon above.
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