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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

ISBN: 9780007304721
Release Date: 16 Nov 2008
Average rating: (read by 173 members)

Categories: Science fiction

Exclusive to Voyager Books, this deluxe edition is limited to only 500 signed, numbered copies. It comes in its own slipcase and features exclusive content by the author as well as six original colour illustrations and endpapers by Richard Wilkinson that richly bring to life this tale of teen rebellion against the surveillance state. Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back? Marcus is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works -- and how to work the system. Smart, fast and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison, where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist.
He knows no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

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	blackcat_hull
	Rated it 3 months ago

cool, relevant, and slighty scary book on modern technology, civil rights, and the so-called 'war on terror'. I loved this book, and want to join the revolution (even if I am over 25!).

	rasper121
	Rated it 4 months ago

Bloody fantastic. George Orwells classic re-invented for digital, always on, connected world today. I'd recommend it to anyone, but its especially suited to teens.

	mtomp Full Review
	Rated it 7 months ago

“Little Brother” is a fun, fast-paced page-turner of an adventure story. All the characters are well drawn and easy to relate to, especially Marcus who makes a very likeable hero.

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