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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780765319852 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Marcus, aka "w1n5t0n," is only 17 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.
Review:
"SF author Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom), coeditor of the influential blog BoingBoing, tells a believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco, victimized first by terrorists and then by an out-of-control Department of Homeland Security determined to turn the city into a virtual police state. Innocent of any wrongdoing beyond cutting school, high school student and techno-geek Marcus is arrested, illegally interrogated and humiliated by overzealous DHS personnel who also 'disappear' his best friend, Darryl, along with hundreds of other U.S. citizens. Moved in part by a desire for revenge and in part by a passionate belief in the Bill of Rights, Marcus vows to drive the DHS out of his beloved city. Using the Internet and other technologies, he plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse, disrupting the government's attempts to create virtually universal electronic surveillance while recruiting other young people to his guerilla movement. Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions of how to counteract gait-recognition cameras, arphids (radio frequency ID tags), wireless Internet tracers and other surveillance devices, this work makes its admittedly didactic point within a tautly crafted fictional framework. Ages 13-up." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
In "Little Brother," Marcus Yallow and three tech-savvy friends skip school to play an alternate reality game that requires finding clues around San Francisco. But "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" soon morphs into a 21st-century take on George Orwell's "1984" when terrorists blow up the Bay Bridge. Because of the high-tech gear they're carrying, the four are picked up, brutally interrogated and detained... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
Review:
"Cory Doctorow tackles timely issues, including the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security." The Washington Post
Review:
"This smartly written novel has the potential to launch powerful classroom discussions and change the way young people think about government." Children's Literature
Review:
"As with 'Big Brother' in George Orwell's 1984, this book will motivate the reader to contemplate free speech, due process, and political activism with new insights." Voya
Review:
"Teen espionage fans will appreciate the numerous gadgets made from everyday materials." School Library Journal
Synopsis:
Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back?
About the Author
Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online, and Locus. He has won the Locus Award three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award, and was named one of the Web's 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you'll use technology to change the world.
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halofriendly, July 16, 2008 (view all comments by halofriendly)
Amazing. Simply amazing. And terrifying when you think about how close we are to this becoming a reality in America. A real page-turner that opens your eyes and provides a great amount of real world information for the curious at the end of the book...everyone should read this.
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subversivegrrl, June 16, 2008 (view all comments by subversivegrrl)
I don't know whether to kiss or curse the person who lent me this book - I was up well past a reasonable bedtime and couldn't put it down. Although clearly written for a young adult audience, this story should put a chill up the back of anyone who worries about where the explosion of technological surveillance capabilities and our unwitting surrender of civil liberties will take us.
Marcus is a bright, if challenging, high school student who delights in getting around all of the monitoring systems his school has in place. But after a terrorist attack precipitates a harrowing encounter with national security interrogators, Marcus has to change tactics and avoid trouble as much as possible, while still trying to bring down the growing labyrinth of covert government surveillance and alert others to the danger. Sometimes it seems he makes his escape a little too conveniently, but in this all-too-real dystopia it's only a matter of time before his efforts to obstruct the government juggernaut put him back into jeopardy.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780765319852
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Tor Books
- Subject:
- General Juvenile Fiction
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Terrorism
- Subject:
- Civil Rights
- Subject:
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
- Copyright:
- 2008
- Edition Description:
- First
- Publication Date:
- April 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- - Up
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 382
- Dimensions:
- 8.52x6.55x1.23 in. 1.05 lbs.
- Age Level:
- 13-UP
