State Tectonics by Malka Older
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lightreadsState Tectonics
3/5. Third book in this series (trilogy?) about a future political system and the upheaval in successive microdemocratic elections.
The last book of 2018, and it's a good one. If you want a book about women – mostly women of color – working together and supporting each other and picking at complex problems from different angles based on their assorted technical and analytical and espionage skills, here you go. And at its heart, this book is having a sustained argument with itself about the value of neutral information in a political system, and what it can and can't do to insulate voters from manipulation. It doesn't come to any conclusions, to be clear, but it's the thought exercise that counts.
Also, points for the title.
3/5. Third book in this series (trilogy?) about a future political system and the upheaval in successive microdemocratic elections.
The last book of 2018, and it's a good one. If you want a book about women – mostly women of color – working together and supporting each other and picking at complex problems from different angles based on their assorted technical and analytical and espionage skills, here you go. And at its heart, this book is having a sustained argument with itself about the value of neutral information in a political system, and what it can and can't do to insulate voters from manipulation. It doesn't come to any conclusions, to be clear, but it's the thought exercise that counts.
Also, points for the title.