The Rapture of the Nerds
Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the 21st century.
Earth has a population of roughly a billion, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Young Huw, technophobic, misanthropic, has been selected for Tech Jury Service, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and some truly awful moments on bathroom floors.