Entries Tagged: Little Brother
Little Brother
May 7, 2008 · by Scott Fradkin
One of my favorite authors is Cory Doctorow. He writes some great science fiction that is both relevant and contemporary. Cory is somewhat unique in that while he publishes his books in dead tree format through major book publishers, he still gives away the text of his works and podcasts his works in audio form all under a Creative Commons license. A few years back he worked for the EFF and he still lectures and writes about electronic freedoms.
His newest novel was just released at the beginning of the month. It is a young adult novel titled “Little Brother”. It’s a story about a high school hacker who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was accused of being a terrorist. The novel recounts how he fights back against the Department of Homeland Security for taking away freedoms. Cory put up a website for the book [1] that contains news about the book, his tour schedule, links to download the text of the book, and even a place to submit remixes of the book. One of my favorite tie-ins is an RSS feed written by the main character from the book at the website Instructables [2]. It’s a bunch of how-tos for various things from the book like how to screen print t-shirts and how to avoid digital camera noise signatures. Fun stuff.
[1] – Little Brother Website
[2] – w1n5t0n’s Instructables feed
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