Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

Tom Doherty Associates, Apr 13, 2010 - Young Adult Fiction - 384 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  - fulner - LibraryThing

I liked this book a lot, but I am not sure how good it is, if that makes much sense. There is a lot of explaining about how free software and cryptography works intertangled with techno-libertarian ...

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User Review  - Jayeless - LibraryThing

So this is a pretty interesting book, but it's one of those "political argument in novel form" books that I always hold to a higher standard. The annoying thing about this book is that Marcus never ...

Contents

• Chapter 1: 9
• Chapter 2: 23
• Chapter 3: 35
• Chapter 4: 51
• Chapter 5: 68
• Chapter 6: 89
• Chapter 7: 104
• Chapter 8: 121
• Chapter 9: 133
• Chapter 10: 150
• Chapter 11: 164
• Chapter 12: 181
• Chapter 13: 199
• Chapter 14: 214
• Chapter 15: 231
• Chapter 16: 252
• Chapter 17: 267
• Chapter 18: 285
• Chapter 19: 302
• Chapter 20: 322
• Chapter 21: 348
• Epilogue: 358
• Afterword: 367
• Afterword: 371
• Bibliography: 375
• Acknowledgments: 381

About the author

Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. He is the author of the young adult novel For the Win, and his adult science fiction novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Web's twenty-five "influencers" by Forbes Magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Brother
• Author: Cory Doctorow
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2010
• ISBN: 1429972874, 9781429972871
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Young Adult Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Young Adult Fiction / Dystopian; Young Adult Fiction / Science & Technology