Chicken Little
A Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction book. Leon's life was all about discipline. He'd heard a weight-loss guru once explain that the key to maintaining...
"Cory Doctorow’s novella ‘Chicken Little’ [..] does an excellent job of updating and commenting on some of the themes that informed Pohl & Kornbluth’s classic novel 'The Space Merchants'. Doctorow’s updated high-tech take on Pohl’s take on Jonathan Swift’s 'struldbrugs,' creatures who have immortality but not eternal youth, continuing to age through their extended lives, is particularly ingenious. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this one show up on an award ballot next year."Gardner Dozois, Locus MagazineA story with a product designer, jetpacks and an immortal quadrillionaire living in a vat."Chicken Little" also appears in the collection "With a Little Help".ABOUT THE AUTHORCory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of...
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Leon's life was all about discipline. He'd heard a weight-loss guru once explain that the key to maintaining a slim figure was to really "listen to your body" and only eat until it signaled that it was full. Leon had listened to his body. It wanted three entire pepperoni and mushroom pizzas every single day, plus a rather large cake. And malted milkshakes, the old fashioned kind you could make in your kitchen with an antique Hamilton Beech machine in avocado-colored plastic, served up in a tall red anodized aluminum cup. Leon's body was extremely verbose...
Short but amazing. I will admit I didn't understand a lot of the marketing philosophy talk, and was kind of hoping that I'd grab enough of it to keep up when the story got going. And then the story ended. Oh, my , YES. Doctorow extrapolates from present trends to give the reader a future where tremendous wealth and limitless power reside in the hands of a select group of individuals, who are, essentially, eternal. Our hero, Leon, works for a company who's only goal is to come up with something to sell to one of those wealthy people in...
