The Scifi-punk Bookfeed

A potent and powerful warning for today and tomorrow! Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow, coming from Tor Books in October 2020 I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. I’m not going to recap all the plot points of this book, blurbs exist for a reason. I am going to express my opinions on the story, the writing, and the message.  Attack Surface is potent and powerful in its message and extremely timely given current world events. This book will scare the crap out of you, in a good way, because it’s meant to wake you up. To make you think about the ways technology is being used and manipulated, to use and manipulate people. A very plausible and frightening warning of where this world could be a few weeks from now.  But I also had some real problems with this book: I found it very frustrating to read until I was in the last 25%. Basically, when the author stopped jumping backwards in time to earlier parts of the main characters life, and stu...