Project Gutenberg 2009-09-30 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 1055 Doctorow, Cory 1971 Little Brother "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a young adult novel written in the late 2000s. The story follows Marcus Yallow, a tech-savvy teenager in San Francisco, as he navigates a post-terrorist attack world where government surveillance and control have reached alarming levels. The narrative explores themes of privacy, civil liberties, and resistance against authoritarianism, appealing particularly to readers interested in technology and activism. At the start of the novel, we meet Marcus, who is introduced as a high school senior living in a heavily surveilled society. After a terrorist attack in San Francisco leads to widespread panic and an overreaching response from authorities, Marcus and his friends find themselves caught in a chaotic situation. Tensions quickly escalate as they attempt to escape the ensuing crackdown, illustrating Marcus's cleverness as he uses technology to evade the authorities, even as he becomes a target for them. The gripping opening sets the tone for a story centered on courage, the fight for freedom, and the moral implications of technological advancement in contemporary society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction United States. Dept. of Homeland Security -- Fiction Terrorism -- Fiction Computer hackers -- Fiction Civil rights -- Fiction Counterculture -- Fiction PZ PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Politics Browsing: Fiction 843431 843437 2024-09-13T04:05:22.551054 2023-09-13T09:08:19.996873 text/html text/html 876348 2023-04-20T05:12:49 text/html 329851 2024-09-13T04:05:32.201027 application/epub+zip 341430 2024-09-13T04:05:24.263016 application/epub+zip 341431 2024-09-13T04:05:23.175110 application/epub+zip 560030 2024-09-13T04:05:38.089918 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 531050 2024-09-13T04:05:31.571987 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 531413 2022-09-14T04:43:08.419871 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 694337 694365 2024-09-13T04:05:20.267026 2023-09-13T09:08:17.796849 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 694215 2021-10-24T13:20:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19505 2024-09-13T04:05:38.222981 application/rdf+xml 10182 2024-09-13T04:05:23.715967 image/jpeg 2884 2024-09-13T04:05:23.513971 image/jpeg 271257 2021-10-24T13:23:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 287405 2023-04-20T05:14:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 324778 2024-09-13T04:05:22.613976 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia