- Motion pictures, Protest movements, Fiction, Science fiction
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless Internet creativity.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and raw.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Tor Teen, TOR, Titan Books Limited
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606318877
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“I will never forget the day my family got cut off from the Internet.”
From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. 2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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