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Winner of the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Childress's debut novel asks listeners to consider the damage technology does to the individuals using it, as well as to society as a whole. Through the stories of Ethan, who develops an algorithm that allows his Wall Street employers to make money from antiterrorist strikes, and Jessica, a drone pilot who performs those strikes, Childress presents a broad indictment of technological advances that allow the user to act at...Log In or Sign Up to Read More