Little Brother - Read Jim Fulner

No cover — Cory Doctorow: Little Brother (2009, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published June 4, 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-730472-1

Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held be the Department of Homland Security for days before being release only to discover that their city has turned into surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS.

This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.

Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held be the Department of Homland Security for days before being release only to discover that their city has turned into surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS.

This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.

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Jim Fulner reviewed Little brother by Cory Doctorow

5 stars

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

Children's fiction
Terrorism, fiction
San francisco (calif.), fiction