Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Perfection Learning Pre Bind, 2010 - Juvenile Fiction - 429 pages

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

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User Review  - ZoeWashburne - LibraryThing

After finishing this book I was convinced that I could and should be a hacker. Technobabble = Awesome. Too bad almost all of the characters were straight boring.

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User Review  - benuathanasia - LibraryThing

This took me a while to get into. After reading the first few chapters, I was loathe to pick it up for the next week. By the midway point, it felt like a car-accident; not pleasurable to watch, but ...

About the author

Writer and activist Cory Doctorow was born in Toronto, Canada on July 17, 1971. In 1999 he co-founded a free software company called Opencola and served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. For four years he worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and in 2007 won its Pioneer Award. His first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, won a Locus Award for Best First Novel. His short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More won a Sunburst Award, and his bestselling novel Little Brother received the 2009 Prometheus Award, a Sunburst Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Doctorow also writes nonfiction books and articles, and he co-edits the blog Boing Boing.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Brother
• Author: Cory Doctorow
• Publisher: Perfection Learning Pre Bind, 2010
• ISBN: 160686744X, 9781606867440
• Length: 429 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Science & Technology