signalnine reviewed Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Review of 'Little Brother' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Probably Doctorow's best work. I guess that's not saying much, but hey.
eBook, 416 pages
English language
Published April 13, 2010 by Tor Teen.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held by the Department of Homeland Security for days before being released, only to discover that their city has turned into a surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how: by taking down the DHS.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Computer hackers
- Civil rights
- Terrorism
- Juvenile fiction
- United States
- Counterculture
- Young adult fiction
- Juvenile literature
- United States. Department of Homeland Security
- Hackers
- Children's fiction
- Terrorism, fiction
- San francisco (calif.), fiction
- Computer crimes