I'm a sucker for a good tech thriller that gets the details right. 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch is a crowd-pleaser, but 'Recursion' is his better tech novel, in my opinion.
It's about a false memory plague and a technology that allows people to experience others' memories or rewrite their own past. The digital culture angle is the obsession with nostalgia, the curation of personal history on social media, and what happens when that curation becomes a literal, world-breaking weapon. The science is bonkers but presented in a compelling, page-turning way that makes you think about how fragile our shared reality is.
A lesser-known gem is 'The Lost Cause' by Cory Doctorow. It's a solarpunk novel set after the climate crisis, focusing on a young man in a community trying to build a better world.
The digital culture depth is in the details: open-source everything, mutual aid networks run on federated apps, the fight against eco-fascist disinformation campaigns online, and the archival of knowledge. It's a wildly optimistic but meticulously detailed blueprint for a digital culture that serves community and sustainability rather than extraction and surveillance. It’s a polemic, but a hopeful and practical one.
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