I’m fully intrigued and excited about my raffle prize, so I’ve been having a bit of a look about to find out more about Cory’s new novel Little Brother.  Here’s Cory explaining a bit about the book from an interview with SCI-FI Weekly:

Doctorow: I just finished a YA novel called Little Brother, about hackers who declare war on the Department of Homeland Security. Every chapter has got a real-world how-to about why homeland security does not work, and how you can defeat it. And it talks about the math and computer science and information science behind the war on terrorism, the junk science behind the war on terrorism. But it’s also meant to be an instruction kit for teaching kids to be culture jammers and technology jammers. I’ve been calling it Encyclopedia Brown meets The Anarchist Cookbook. My editor at Tor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, called it Wikipedia Brown. So I just finished it, and finished the outline of book two. It’s a two book series. My agent is auctioning it off after Labor Day.

Sounds very cool, very useful, very interesting.