Praise for Little Brother

Praise for Little Brother “A believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco… Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions…within a tautly crafted fictional framework.” Publishers Weekly, starred review “Readers will delight in the details of how Marcus attempts to stage a techno-revolution… Buy multiple copies; this book will be h4wt (that’s ‘hot,’ for the nonhackers).” —Booklist, starred review “Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority… Raising pertinent questions and fostering discussion, this techno-thriller is an outstanding first purchase.” —School Library Journal, starred review “Little Brother is generally awesome in the more vernacular sense: It’s pretty freaking cool… a fluid, instantly ingratiating fiction writer…he’s also terrific at finding the human aura shimmering around technology.” Los Angeles Times “A wonderful, important book…I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I’ve read this year, and I’d want to get it into the hands of as many smart thirteen-year-olds, male and female, as I can.” Neil GaimaN, author of Sandman aNd American Gods “A worthy younger sibling to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary.” BriaN K. vauGhaN, author of Y: The Last Man “Scarily realistic… Action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile’s civil protest.” Andrew “Bunnie” huang, author of Hacking the Xbox “The right book at the right time from the right author--and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow’s best novel yet.” JohN scalzi, author of Old Man’s War “I was completely hooked in the first few minutes.” mitch KaPor, iNveNtor of lotus 1-2-3 aNd co-fouNder of the electroNic froNtier fouNdatioN “Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country’s best hope for the future.” JaNe mcGoNiGal, designer of the alterNate-reality Game I Love Bees “The teenage voice is pitch-perfect. I couldn’t put it down, and I loved it.” Jo waltoN, author of Farthing Content 2nd gal final.indd 1 7/4/08 9:55:59 AM “Read this book. You’ll learn a great deal about computer security, surveillance and how to counter it, and the risk of trading off freedom for ‘security.’ And you’ll have fun doing it.” tim o’reilly, fouNder aNd CEO of o’reilly media “A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.” scott westerfeld, author of Pretties, Uglies, aNd Extras “I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology — each of which make this book a must-read — but, at the end of it all, I’m haunted by the universality of Marcus’s rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it.” steveN c. Gould, author of Jumper aNd Reflex “A worthy younger sibling to Orwell’s 1984, Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary.” BriaN K. vauGhaN, author of Y: The Last Man for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: “…the impressively imagined world of the novel is tricked out in lively prose.” New York Times “Cory Doctorow meshes all of these outlandish ideas into a novel of power and skill. His story is told on many levels, with a surprising complexity and the perfect touch of humor. Like all good science fiction, Doctorow tackles the issues of today, tomorrow. Morality, cloning, socialism, poverty, right to die, freedom of choice, pratfalls of hubris, and the cult of celebrity are all explored in what may be the best debut science-fiction novel since Neuromancer.” Austin Chronicle “Fast, smart, fun and flashy: Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is all of the above. Even when science fiction is based on solid predictions, it can demonstrate the pinwheeling pyrotechnics of a first-class fireworks display.” Seattle Times “It would not be an exaggeration to say that Doctorow’s work is one of the main reasons I still read science fiction, so I looked forward to his first novel with great anticipation. The simple verdict? It’s good. A fast, funny, smart, clever book which entertains so well that it’s only upon reflection that its surprising sophistication and depths become evident.” Strange Horizons “Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in it. I couldn’t put the book down.” Bruce schNeier, author of Secrets and Lies Content 2nd gal final.indd 2 7/4/08 9:56:01 AM for A Place So Foreign and 8 More: “As a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all- around Renaissance geek, Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer who can really drill down…. We should all hope and trust that our culture has the guts and moxie to follow this guy. He’s got a lot to tell us.” Bruce sterling, author of Schismatrix aNd The Difference Engine (with william GiBsoN) “Cory Doctorow straps on his miner’s helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and under- ground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through sf-coloured glasses.” Neil GaimaN, author of American Gods aNd The Sandman “A Place So Foreign and 8 More is the post-cyberpunk iconoclast’s much anticipated first collection, and it starts with a bang.” Montreal Gazette “[It’s] a bracing collection of short stories by a Canadian writer whose influences range from Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker to Donald Barthelme and Roald Dahl. As knowledgeable about computers as he is about flea markets, Doctorow uses science fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into some of society’s unlighted corners. His best known story, ‘Craphound,’ tells of a competi- tive friendship between two junk collectors, one human and one alien; what it says about the uses of the past is no more mysterious than the prices paid for a vintage Coke bottle or an early Barbie doll. Not every attempt to wrest truth from cliché works — but you won’t want to miss Doctorow’s satiric glance at co-opted dissent among the grade-school set or the insidious horror of his updated Pinocchio tale.” New York Times “Achingly funny...by relentlessly exposing disenchanted Silicon Valley dwellers caught in a military-industrial web of khaki money, Congress-critters and babykiller projects, Doctorow explores the intersection of social concern and technology.” Publishers Weekly “Time travel made fresh. Pinocchio made haunting. Even the tangential ideas, incidental word choices and minor sub-stories crackle with creativity. If your nerd quotient is high enough, the last story will blow you away.” Jeff Bezos, fouNder, amazoN.com for Eastern Standard Tribe: “Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar — a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find).” william GiBsoN, author, Neuromancer aNd Spook Country Content 2nd gal final.indd 3 7/4/08 9:56:01 AM “…a satisfying dose of suspense and humor.” San Francisco Chronicle “…Doctorow maintains an unrelenting pace; many readers will find themselves finishing the novel, as I did, in a single sitting.” Toronto Star “At its heart, Tribe is a witty, sometimes acerbic poke in the eye at modern culture. Every- thing comes under Doctorow’s microscope, and he manages to be both up to date and off the cuff in the best possible way.” Locus for Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: “Someone Comes to Town is a fantastic example of a fairy tale for grownups, a weird and wonderful piece of 21st century fantasy.” Alterati “A glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.” GeNe wolfe, author of Pirate Freedom aNd The Book of the New Sun “Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe) treats these and other bizarre images and themes with deadpan wit. In this inventive parable about tolerance and acceptance, he demonstrates how memorably the outrageous and the everyday can coexist.” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Cory Doctorow is the apotheosis of what we talk about when we talk about The Web.” SF Site “I found Someone Comes to Town to be a great celebration of life and a novel that manages to be downright scary at times while still utterly resplendent with hope.” Bookslut “Magical realism and literary iconoclasm abound in a novel that should appeal to fans of experimental fiction in a near-future setting.” Library Journal “It’s official: Cory Doctorow has become the new Neal Stephenson. Or, rather, he’s become the new early-period Neal Stephenson, since Stephenson himself has moved away from quirky, computer tech-y, zippy future-kitsch. Doctorow began filling the resulting gap with his first novels,Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe. But his latest, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, is his most Stephenson-like novel to date, all bizarre characters, cutting-edge culture, and technological lectures, swirled into a refreshing, compellingly grounded semi-fable.” The Onion A.V. Club Content 2nd gal final.indd 4 7/4/08 9:56:02 AM “Doctorow strings together wonderfully witty words into pithy sentences that have no right making as much sense as they do.

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