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Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. It was released on April 29, 2008. The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. The novel is available for free on the author's website under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA), keeping it accessible and remixable to all.
The book debuted at No. 9 on The New York Times Best Seller list, children's chapter book section, in May 2008. As of July 2, it had spent a total of six weeks on the list, rising to the No. 8 spot. Little Brother won the 2009 White Pine Award, the 2009 Prometheus Award. and the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. It also was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Little Brother received the Sunburst Award in the young adult category.
The New York Times says, "'Little Brother' isn't shy about its intent to disseminate subversive ideas to a young audience." The novel comes with two afterword essays by cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier, and hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, and has a bibliography of techno-countercultural writings, from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to Schneier’s "Applied Cryptography".
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This work is a part of Little Brother & Homeland.
Homeland is a sequel of this work.
Mały Brat is a translation of this work.
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Keywords
- American literature
- Canadian literature
- Civil disobedience
- Civil rights
- Civil rights -- Fiction
- Computer hackers
- Computer hackers -- Fiction
- Countercult
- Counterculture
- Counterculture -- Fiction
- English literature
- Fiction
- GITenberg
- hackers
- Juvenile Fiction
- Juvenile literature
- Protected DAISY
- PS
- PZ
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Terrorism
- Terrorism -- Fiction
- United States
- United States. Department of Homeland Security
- United States. Dept. of Homeland and Security
- United States. Dept. of Homeland Security
- United States. Dept. of Homeland Security -- Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
Links
web: http://craphound.com/homeland/Editions
