Cory Doctorow/Little Brother/6 your favorite electronic bookseller and order a copy to the classroom, then email a copy of the receipt (feel free to delete your address and other personal info 238 books5,069 followers. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the YA graphic novel In Real Life, the nonfiction business book Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, and young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and Little Brother and novels for Cory Doctorow. This Study Guide consists of approximately 47 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Little Brother. Print Word PDF. This section contains 1,010 words. Little Brother takes Homeland Security from a pessimistic projection of current day to a full-out secret police with practically no transition and a bit of handwaving political justification. Real US government agents are not uniformly this stupid. In other words, Doctorow falls prey to the tendency to dehumanize and villainize political opponents. Read 5,830 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Marcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how t… 978-0-765-32910-3. The Rapture of the Nerds is a 2012 novel by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. [1] It was released on September 4, 2012 through Tor Books and as an ebook, DRM free, under the CC BY-NC-ND. [2] The book can also be downloaded for free. [3] ISBN. 978-0-765-32908-0. Pirate Cinema is a 2012 novel by Canadian-British writer Cory Doctorow. The novel is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license and is available free on the author's website. The novel is set in a dystopian near-future Britain where the government is effectively controlled by media corporations. Okay, Doctorow's writing isn't that good; but I enjoyed little brother because at its heart, it's not just a 1984 fan-fiction, it's about how we (as individuals and as a society) use computers and how it changes us, which is a very real and relevant thing to at least think about. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew Pirate Cinema Cory Doctorow.2012-10-02 From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny. Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from HpSoy.