A terrorist attack on San Francisco brings the Department of Homeland Security to the city. Four teens are wrongfully detained and only three of them are released. This compels one of their number, Marcus Yallow, to wage a cyber war on the DHS. The novels considers what freedoms people are willing...
Cory Doctorow wrote a book about a possible reality that could happen any second in our day-to-day lives. In Little Brother terrorists attack San Francisco and as a result Homeland Security uses the potential threat that anyone could be a terrorist to supervise every single person creating a totalit...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-sentence summary: this was one of the most agonizing, interminable reads ever, with the author's voice dominating the plot and the characters. I was surprised by how much this book annoyed me. Not for the political reasons that may h...
Fast-paced polemic, a prequel to 1984 and Brave New World, showing us how what's happening today (surveillance state, militarized policing) marches us toward that kind of future. Too didactic ("everyone should learn to program--here's how") and with a typical YA too-perfect first-person boy narrator...
Natasha read this and loved it, talking me into starting as soon as she was done. It deals realistically with both the surveillance on students today in the US, and on what could happen in the immediate wake of another large-scale terrorist attack. It includes the sort of torture we know our governm...
Who better to write and design a graphic novel about the real-world economics of online gaming than Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang? This quick read is a gem of teenage idealism, excellent artwork, and the impact that playing around and communicating with people in other cultures has both online and offl...
Though it has been years since I read Doctorow's Little Brother, I can't forget the disappointment I felt reading it. In spite of having been (much) younger, I couldn't shake the feeling while reading the book that Doctorow was trying very desperately to tell me something about surveillance. I'm not...
The message is right on - the tension between security and comfort is as much a part of the war on terror as it is a part of the whole internet experience, or paying for goods, or just getting through your own front door. There comes a point where increasing security - to preserve your freedom - yo...
I've heard about good things about Little Brother for a couple years now and never got around to reading it until recently. I started reading Little Brother shortly after hearing about the NSA leaks from Snowden and learning more of the whole PRISM deal. So, this book led me down to path of paranoia...
I bought [b:Little Brother|4461558|Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)|Cory Doctorow|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328043381s/4461558.jpg|939584] back in 2010 some time, planning 'giving this [a:Doctorow|12581|Cory Doctorow|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1361468756p2/12...
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