Homeland follows the hero of the earlier book, Marcus, now a college dropout looking for work after his parents lose their jobs in the recession. In Little Brother, a group of tech-savvy teens manages to undermine the new totalitarian government by creating its own internet using old gaming consoles. Homeland is the sequel to the well-regarded Little Brother, an updating of Orwell's 1984 set in a post 9/11 San Francisco, where a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge turns the country into a police state in the blink of an eye. “As dead serious as Nineteen Eighty-Four, as potentially important a ‘novel of ideas,’ with a much more engaging central character and an apparently inexhaustible supply of information on everything from brewing coffee to sneaky surveillance and how to defeat it.As I said in my review last year of Pirate Cinema, a Cory Doctorow YA novel is as much a treatise as a story. Surrounded by friends who consider him a hacker hero, stalked by people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain, Marcus has to act, and act fast. When Marcus witnesses Masha’s kidnapping by the same agents who detained and tortured him earlier, he has to decide whether to save her or leak the archive that will cost his employer the election and put thousands at risk. Then his former nemesis, Masha, emerges with a thumbdrive containing WikiLeaks-style evidence of government wrongdoing. Can one brilliant teenage hacker actually fight back? Maybe, but only if he’s very careful.and if he chooses his friends well.Ī few years after the events of Little Brother, California’s economy collapses and Marcus finds himself employed by a crusading politician who promises reform. He knows that no one will believe him, which leaves him one option: to take down the DHS himself. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his friends are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they are brutally interrogated for days. Marcus Yallow is seventeen years old when he skips school and finds himself caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty muchĪny book I’ve read this year.” –Neil Gaiman Cory Doctorow’s two New York Times-bestselling novels of youthful rebellion against the torture-and-surveillance state – now available in a softcover omnibus
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