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The weekend is here and there's a whole range of new books, movies and video games on offer. Here's what's good in Australia this week.

0Shares Don’t be evil. It’s the epigraph of David Yoon’s new satirical tech thriller, Version Zero. Yoon cites the quote as an “Internet proverb,” though it’s actually taken from the corporate code of conduct at Google. As our lives have shifted onto the Internet, we become ever more reliant on the hope that Google—and the other giant tech companies that rule the world—will keep their promise to not be evil . Spoiler: They broke that promise a long time ago. Penguin Random House. Enter Wren, the Facebook-Twitter megasite that rules Silicon Valley in Version Zero. Wren is def...

Embed G.P. Putnam's Sons Everybody jokes about just doing away with the Internet after some data hack, service outage or other frustration reveals how much of our lives revolve around it. As David Yoon writes in his new novel about a fictitious platform called Wren — and only the name may be fictitious: Everyone loved it, everyone hated it. People used it for news. For gossip. Social plans. Dining tips. Political views. Dating. Shopping. Driving directions. Blablabla ... The people could not stop themselves. They said they were

Elizabeth Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge, sold world rights to Oh William! to Andy Ward at Random House. The novel, RH said, is about a formerly married couple who are now friends. They watch their children grow up and reckon with their own pasts as they “unearth the kind of long-buried family secret that rearranges everything we think we know about those closest to us.” Strout was represented by Molly Friedrich and Oh William! is slated for October. Putnam Goes ‘Orange’ for Yoon Putnam’s City of Orange by Frankly in Love and the forthcoming Version Ze...