Little brother

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10 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each)

English language

Published July 10, 2008 by Random House/Listening Library.

ISBN:
978-0-7393-7287-6
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OCLC Number:
231344919

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After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco, 17-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

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reviewed Little brother by Cory Doctorow

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 propaganda mixed in with the dystopian tale. Most of that was old hat for me. I would want one of my non-technical friends to read it and let me know wether that stuff was informative or boring or something else. returnreturnPlot wise a group of teenage LARPers get stuck in a terrorist attack and then DHS takes then into custody. It was dirty and scary. The story mixed in adventure, freedom, and high school romance. If that sounds good go for it.

Subjects

  • United States. Dept. of Homeland Security -- Juvenile fiction
  • San Francisco (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
  • Civil rights -- Juvenile fiction
  • Counterculture -- Juvenile fiction
  • Computer hackers -- Juvenile fiction
  • Terrorism -- Juvenile fiction

Places

  • San Francisco (Calif.)