<p><b>If you want a better future tomorrow, you're going to have to fight for it today.</b></p> <p>Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near - all too near - future.</p> <p>'<b>Unauthorized Bread</b>' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman's perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster.</p> <p>In '<b>Model Minority</b>' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system.</p> <p>'<b>Radicalized</b>' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system.</p> <p>The final story, '<b>The Masque of the Red Death</b>', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society.</p> <p><b>'Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction writers' KIM STANLEY ROBINSON.</b></p>