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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
ISBN 9780765319852
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Science Fiction
384 pages
12+
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Annotation: Little Brother is realistic, timely, and fun novel. It won the 2009 White Pine Award[1] and 2009 Prometheus Award[2]. This book is also a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel[3].
Summary: Marcus, “win5ton and M1k3y”, is a seventeen year old who goes to high school. One day, the bay bridge was blown up by terrorists and Marcus is wrongfully thrown into a type of jail that is not really a jail by The Department of Homeland Security. When he is released, one of his friends is missing. After the attack, the city decided to put up FasTracks that can track wherever you go and whenever you go. It makes the whole city feel paranoid. Many people are being pulled aside just because they went to Berkeley at 9 pm! Others are being taken to jail because of suspicious activities that weren’t suspicious at all! After hearing this, Marcus decides to fight back for his country. Can one little teenager be able to stand up for the rights of an entire country?
Critique: Marcus was very smart and all knowing in the book. I didn’t understand parts of the book because of the advanced technology vocabulary. When they explained about the codes and Xnet, I got very confused. The book had a lot of feelings and it used a lot of details, such as when he was being tortured, to make the readers understand how the characters felt.
Biography: Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online, and Locus. He has won the Locus Award three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award, and was named one of the Web’s twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you’ll use technology to change the world.
You can learn more about him by visiting the website at:
http://craphound.com/.
[1] http://www.bpl.on.ca/teens/read/awards/whitepine.htm
[2] http://www.lfs.org/releases.htm
[3] http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/03/finalists-2009-hugo-awards/
[4] http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Little-Brother/Cory-Doctorow/e/9780765319852/?itm=1
[5] Retrieved the image from: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780765319852
[1] http://www.bpl.on.ca/teens/read/awards/whitepine.htm
[2] http://www.lfs.org/releases.htm
[3] http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/03/finalists-2009-hugo-awards/
[4] http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Little-Brother/Cory-Doctorow/e/9780765319852/?itm=1
[5] Retrieved the image from: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780765319852
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