Picks and Shovels: Red Team
Autor Cory Doctorowen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2025
Here, Martin Hench will reinvent the forensic accountant for the digital age - what a bounty hunter is to people, he will be to tech money - but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever.
When Martin is hired by a Silicon Valley startup, Fidelity Computing, to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who've founded a competitor, he quickly realises he's on the wrong side. Martin ditches the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women have set out to beat Fidelity Computing at their own game. But they have no idea of the depth of evil they're seeking to uproot. Or the risks they run.
In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781804547854
ISBN-10: 1804547859
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 129 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Seria Red Team
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1804547859
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 129 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Seria Red Team
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
'Picks and Shovels, Cory Doctorow's reconstruction of the rise of Silicon Valley, is note perfect. I love Marty and Art and all the main characters. I love the hope and the thrill that marks the opening section. But I love too the thesis that San Francisco always has failed and always will fail her suitors. Even in the sunlight of that time the shadows are lengthening. the seeds of enshittification are all there. Despite cultural entropy, corruption, greed and all the betrayals there's a core of hope and honour in the story too... And some damned good recipes that I have tucked away.'
'What could be better than a Martin Hench thriller set in 1980s San Francisco that mixes punk rock romance with Lotus spreadsheets, dot matrix printers and religious orders? You'll eat this up -- I sure did.'
'Wonderful...evokes the hacker spirit of the early personal computer era-and shows how the battle for software freedom is eternal.'
'Captures the look and feel of the PC Era. Cory Doctorow draws a portrait of a Silicon Valley and San Francisco before the tech bros showed up - a startup world driven as much by open source ideals as venture capital gold.'
'A crackling, page-turning tumble into an unexpected underworld of queer coders, Mission burritos, and hacker nuns. You will fall in love with the righteous underdogs of Computing Freedom-and feel right at home in the holy place Doctorow has built for them far from Silicon Valley's grabby, greedy hands.'
'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers'
'Cory Doctorow writes as few authors do, with tech world savvy and real world moral clarity. A true storyteller for our times.'
'You won't put this book down - it's too much fun. I was there when it all began. Doctorow's characters and their story are *real*.'
A classic thriller setup: the little guys vs corporate skulduggery
Excellent... a technical thriller that entertains and educates from first page to last
Reads like a 1980s Silicon Valley startup myth meets spy thriller... This is an origin story for the lead character but you don't need to have read the whole series. You'll race through it
Will appeal to many things readers are looking for, from serious thoughts to sheer comedy, from finding out obscure facts to agreeing with succinct summarisations, and from nostalgia to helpful advice about living in today's world. Above all, 'Picks & Shovels' entertains
The word that most comes to mind is charming: there is something very likeable about Doctorow's story of decent people trying to do good things
'What could be better than a Martin Hench thriller set in 1980s San Francisco that mixes punk rock romance with Lotus spreadsheets, dot matrix printers and religious orders? You'll eat this up -- I sure did.'
'Wonderful...evokes the hacker spirit of the early personal computer era-and shows how the battle for software freedom is eternal.'
'Captures the look and feel of the PC Era. Cory Doctorow draws a portrait of a Silicon Valley and San Francisco before the tech bros showed up - a startup world driven as much by open source ideals as venture capital gold.'
'A crackling, page-turning tumble into an unexpected underworld of queer coders, Mission burritos, and hacker nuns. You will fall in love with the righteous underdogs of Computing Freedom-and feel right at home in the holy place Doctorow has built for them far from Silicon Valley's grabby, greedy hands.'
'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers'
'Cory Doctorow writes as few authors do, with tech world savvy and real world moral clarity. A true storyteller for our times.'
'You won't put this book down - it's too much fun. I was there when it all began. Doctorow's characters and their story are *real*.'
A classic thriller setup: the little guys vs corporate skulduggery
Excellent... a technical thriller that entertains and educates from first page to last
Reads like a 1980s Silicon Valley startup myth meets spy thriller... This is an origin story for the lead character but you don't need to have read the whole series. You'll race through it
Will appeal to many things readers are looking for, from serious thoughts to sheer comedy, from finding out obscure facts to agreeing with succinct summarisations, and from nostalgia to helpful advice about living in today's world. Above all, 'Picks & Shovels' entertains
The word that most comes to mind is charming: there is something very likeable about Doctorow's story of decent people trying to do good things