7/3/2023 0 Comments Homeland doctorow novelThe New York Times says, "'Little Brother' isn't shy about its intent to disseminate subversive ideas to a young audience." The novel comes with two afterword essays by cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier, and hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, and has a bibliography of techno-countercultural writings, from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". Little Brother received the Sunburst Award in the young adult category. It also was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Little Brother won the 2009 White Pine Award, the 2009 Prometheus Award. As of July 2, it had spent a total of six weeks on the list, rising to the No. 9 on The New York Times Best Seller list, children's chapter book section, in May 2008. The novel is available for free on the author's website under a Creative Commons license ( CC BY-NC-SA), keeping it accessible and remixable to all. The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. Terrorism, cryptography, computer hackers, Department of Homeland Security, privacy ( privacy in education), police state
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