I enjoyed this sequel to Infomocracy very much, because Malka Older is a smart, imaginative, thoughtful author, who writes smart, imaginative, thoughtful books. One thing I particularly appreciated was that this book engages more deeply with some of the perhaps overly optimistic aspects of the microdemocracy system that made me raise an eyebrow in the … Continue reading Null States (2017), by Malka Older

This book was a smart and terrifically imaginative political thriller that invents a genuinely new governing system of 'microdemocracy'. The idea is that the world is split into 'centenals' of 100,000 people each, and each centenal votes on how it wants to be governed. There are multiple governing bodies, which are sort of like political … Continue reading Infomocracy (2016), by Malka Older