Little Brother
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.
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I’m enjoying how excited you are about your prize! That’s a pretty nifty thing to win, actually. You’ll have to tell us what name you pick! I guess you’ll have to find out which character he’s letting you name, first..
Hi Gra
The book will probably be banned in australia soon.
Our glorious attorney-general is soon going to passing new censorship laws so that anything seen as supporting or inciting terrorism will be banned from sale, distribution or import.
Those books by Mitnik will probably fall in the same category.
[...] This makes me wonder if Gra will ever see his name in print, at least in Oz-traya, after he won the prize of his name appearing in a Young Adult book by Cory Doctorow. Seems to me like “Little Brother” will be banned in Australia. After all, taking on the US dept of Homeland Security… thats pretty bad, right? [...]
you might have a point there Ashleigh.. things are sounds pretty weird down there at the moment. Don’t worry, if it comes to that, Cory’s books are all releases in a hundred different free forms..
We’ll get one to you somehow.