New from Tor/Forge: Null States: A Novel by Malka Older.
About the book, from the publisher:
The future of democracy is about to implode.Follow Malka Older on Twitter and visit her website.
After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order.
In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans to bring microdemocracy to its knees. In Central Asia, a sprawling war among archaic states threatens to explode into a global crisis. And across the world, a shadowy plot is growing, threatening to strangle Information with the reins of power.
The Page 69 Test: Infomocracy.
--Marshal Zeringue