Little Brother: Book Review

Little Brother is a Speculative Fictional novel written by Corey Doctorow. It was published by Tor Books and released in April 23, 2007. The book first appeared on the New York Best Seller list at no. 9 in May 2008. It then moved up to no.8 on July 2. In 2009, "Little Brother" won the White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, also being a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Little Brother is a very inspiring book for teens that are interested in technology, and provides accurate technological facts along the story, explaining all kinds of security systems and programming devices. The main plot of this book revolves around and unfair government that 'in order to protect the citizens', installs 'security' to spy on every aspect of everyone in their daily lives. The main character, a high school student Marcus Yallow, has managed to avoid these means of security and is fairing very well. But after a terrorist attack, he is falsely accused of being a terrorist and is forced to fight the government that is supposed to protect his freedom, in order to regain his freedom. I would recommend this book for anyone over 12, as it does contain mild sexual content.

Comments on the Book

"A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion-as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on an air plane." - Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies, Pretties, and Specials

"It made me want to be thirteen again right now and reading it for the first time."
- Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman and American Gods

"A tale of struggle familiar to any teenager, about those moments when you choose what your life is going to mean." - Steven Gould, author of Jumper

"Scarily realistic... Action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile's civil protest." - Andrew Huang, author of hacking the Xbox

"The right book at the right time from the right author-and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet" - John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War

"Read this book. You'll learn a great deal about computer security, surrveillence, and how to counter it, and the risk of trading off freedom for 'security'. And you'll have fun doing it"
-Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media