Cory Doctorow, Radicalized, Tom Doherty and Associates, New York, 2019.

Four stories expressing the emerging risks in our society. Reading each story, you experience small "a-ha" moments about culture and technology.

• Unauthorized Bread

The point is you had a choice, and that's because appliances like ours made it economical for landlords to build subsidy units.

• Model Minority

Right now you are white, but that's a wholly contingent proposition.

• Radicalized

Someone in that building made the decision to kill my little girl, and everyone else in that building went along with it.

• The Masque of the Red Death

She'd learned that rebuilding, caring, and fixing kept the sudden terrors and creeping tears away.