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Little Brother
Written by Cory Doctorow
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Average Score:
82(9)
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” 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 that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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Book Details
Young Adult
Science Fiction
Hardcover,
384 Pages
Published
by Tor Teen on April 29, 2008
First Published by Tor Teen in 2008
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Reviews
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SF Reader
| Adam P. Knave
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Review Rating: 100
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Buy this book. Read it, digest it, enjoy the hell out of it. Then give it to a teenager you know.
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SF Signal
| John DeNardo
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Review Rating: 100
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this is a book with widespread appeal, regardless of age and background. I would also offer this book as a great candidate to get teens hooked on science fiction.
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Boomtron
| dragonwomant
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Review Rating: 80
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It's an excellent, thought-provoking read, and I would recommend it to just about everyone.
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SF Site
| Alma A. Hromic
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Review Rating: 80
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A good read, and one containing ideas that definitely need to be disseminated more widely.
Recommended.
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Strange Horizons
| Farah Mendlesohn
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Review Rating: 80
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In the past I've regarded Doctorow as very much an ideas mill, without the bite that makes a really fine writer. Little Brother--angry at the way we regard the young, intolerant of America's and Britain's historical intolerance to its own youth--has all the bite and passion one could need.
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The Internet Review of Science Fiction
| Flynn Gallagher
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Review Rating: 80
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Cory Doctorow's latest novel gives us something that we don't see too often in science fiction these days--a near-future dystopia that's both realistic and well-written.
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The Wertzone
| Adam Whitehead
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Review Rating: 80
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It's a smart and clever book with a deep sense of cynicism which is slightly undermined by the happy-ish ending, but the journey remains entertaining.
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sffworld.com
| Rob H. Bedford
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Review Rating: 80
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Entertaining, enlightening and eye-opening, Little Brother will only further reinforce Cory Doctorow's presence as one of the visionaries of free speech advocacy and great storytelling in the 21st Century.
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The Zone
| Jonathan McCalmont
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Review Rating: 60
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the book is so engaging that all but the most cynical are liable to ignore many of its problems...
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