Unauthorized Bread - by Cory Doctorow (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author of Enshittification Cory Doctorow presents Unauthorized Bread--a near-future dystopian graphic novel about how we use our technology...and how it uses us.

Salima's new high-tech apartment building seems ideal, until she and her neighbors discover it's designed to enforce inequality. Elevators discriminate by income, appliances extract revenue. The fridge won't chill unauthorized groceries. The toaster won't toast unauthorized bread.

When the company that makes these electronic "conveniences" goes under, they stop working altogether. Salima must lead a dangerous jailbreaking effort, training a child army who liberate the building's appliances, even those hated elevators. But this group of disenfranchised young immigrants will have to risk everything.

Cory Doctorow is one of our most incisive and imaginative thinkers about technology, and Unauthorized Bread is both propulsive dystopian adventure and a chilling warning about the cost of surrendering control to technology.

About the Author

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, includingThe Lost Cause, a solarpunk science-fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His nonfiction book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation is a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brotherseries for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

J.R. Doyle is an Indonesian-American comic and storyboard artist for games and animation. They live in the mountains with their partner and two cats.

Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer who lives in Minneapolis with a woman, a cat, and a dog. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star. Blue is also the creator of graphic novels like Meal, Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary. They enjoy cooking, traveling by train, and playing mahjong.