This incident allows the restrictive "Patriot Act II" to be put in place, while the Department of Homeland Security invades the area.Īfter Marcus Yallow and his friends are wrongly imprisoned and interrogated by Homeland Security following the attack, after being found to be acting "suspiciously" The story follows the events of the group after a terrorist attack destroys the San Francisco Bay Bridge and the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) causing widespread deaths, injuries and chaos.
Set a few years into the future, Little Brother follows a group of teenagers in San Fransisco as they live in a Big Brother society where government observation and control are an insidious part of daily life. The book has also won the 2009 White Pine award, is a finalist for both the Hugo Award and the 2009 Prometheus Award. The novel has debuted at no 9 on the new york times bestseller list, spending 6 weeks in the top 10.
The novel comes with two afterword essays by cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier, and hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, and has a bibliography of techno-countercultural writings, from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to Schneier’s "Applied Cryptography.Little brother is a young adult science fiction novel written by Cory Doctorow. The New York Times says, “Little Brother isn't shy about its intent to disseminate subversive ideas to a young audience. Little Brother received the Sunburst Award in the young adult category. It also was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Little Brother won the 2009 White Pine Award, the 2009 Prometheus Award. The novel is available for free on the author's website under a Creative Commons license, keeping it accessible to all. The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books.
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