Little Brother
by:
Cory Doctorow (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780765319852 (0765319853)
Publish date: April 29th 2008
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages no: 382
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Science,
Technology,
Speculative Fiction,
Politics,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Dystopia,
Cyberpunk
Series: Little Brother (#1)
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...
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