Gamers Unite!

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2008. Print.

With all the protesting that is happening these days, various Occupy Protests setup world wide and videos of police monitoring and arresting protesters every night on the news, its not hard to imagine what life would be like if the government decided that we didn't have the right to protest anymore.

This book focuses on the protest activities of a teen who has been illegally arrested and accused of being a terrorist after an attack on San Francisco. Of course, the charges are false, and Marcus uses his advanced technological expertise to start an underground protest movement.

Exciting, techy, and a little bit unnerving since it hits so close to home, Little Brother will have you taking a second interest in what Big Government and Big Business really does behind closed doors.







Abstract (thanks to OCLC World Cat): "After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right."

Winner: White Pine Award 2009, Prometheus Award 2009, John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2009

OCLC World Cat Record - Holdings, Abstracts, Further Info