- Fiction, Computer hackers, Civil rights, Terrorism
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 surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS. This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Perfection Learning, Turtleback Books
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- srp, hun, English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9798556974722
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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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