Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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The first in Cory Doctorow’s New York Times bestselling YA series about a youthful rebellion against the torture-and-surveillance state.
“A wonderful, important book ... I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I’ve read this year.” – Neil Gaiman
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a novel published in 2008. When a terrorist attack strikes San Francisco, four teenagers find themselves detained by the Department of Homeland Security. Released but under surveillance, seventeen-year-old hacker Marcus Yallow refuses to accept the government's erosion of civil liberties. He creates Xnet, a secret network to fight back against the surveillance state, transforming from suspect to resistance leader in a battle over freedom and security.
About Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the YA graphic novel In Real Life, the nonfiction business book Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, and novels like *Rapture Of The Nerds *and Makers. He is a Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.
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YA novel about a teenage hacker who forms a secret network to resist government surveillance after DHS detention, empowering teen civil-liberties activism.
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YA novel about a teenage hacker who forms a secret network to resist government surveillance after DHS detention, empowering teen civil-liberties activism.