The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away by Cory Doctorow

In a dystopian future police state there are so many rules that everyone is guilty of something. Isolated from the rest of society by a wall, a group of techno-monks, the Order of Reflective Analytics, live a near utopian existence. The story draws on sources including Anathem by Neal Stephenson and George Orwell’s 1984. It is darker than Doctorow’s recent novel Little Brother. “The Things That Make Me Weak ...” presents a future that has descended so far into paranoia that it is perhaps irredeemable. No new ground is covered. It’s a skilled example of its kind.

“The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away” by Cory Doctorow originally appeared at Tor.com
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