Reddit reviews Little Brother

For anyone who hasn't read it, /u/bogdaniuz is referring to this book, Little Brother by Cory Doctrow. It's an interesting look at what might happen if the government's reach extends a little too far into our personal lives. I'm not an expert on Homeland Security or any of the technology used in the book so I can't speak for its accuracy, but it features a likable and relatable protagonist and it will make you think about current events.

Little Brother by Corey Doctorow https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117

So far it's very good. It is the sequel to one of my favorite books Little Brother, so read that first.

EDIT: I goofed the link.

EDIT 2: You can legally download LB for free from the author's website. Enjoy!

EDIT 3: When done with that, you can download Homeland here.

This isn't an adaptation but it might be what you're looking for..? http://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117

Might be a little too mature for an 11 year old, but I'd recommend Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.
I'd recommend you reading them as well. Some pretty good common-man explanations of some core security topics.

"Little Brother", Cory Doctorow
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117/
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Little_Brother_%28Cory_Doctorow_novel%29
"He helps develop a clandestine wireless network, X-Net, that avoids DHS monitoring using anonymity and encryption. Using the X-Net as a secure communications medium, he organizes teenagers and twenty-somethings who are upset with the police state tactics imposed after the bombing. They develop innovative uses of existing technologies to foil DHS monitoring and cause mass confusion and embarrassment to law enforcement."

Also:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/b4t4m/fight_acta_with_the_darknet_plan_establish_our/
http://mesh-net.org/wiki/The_Darknet_Plan

Little Brother

/smartass

It really is quite good, though.

Well, I don't have any other classics I'd be willing to give away but I have Driftless by David Rhodes, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and a signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, if you're interested in any of those.

Also, they're all in superb condition, no folded corners or anything.

On the fantasy end of things (since you mention Neil Gaiman), is City of Dreaming Books. German author so there's a good chance she hasn't read it and this isn't the only one in the series.

Cory Doctrow also writes YA, Little Brother, comes to mind.

At that age I was working my way through the Golden Age authors (Heinlein, Bradbury, Clark, Asimov, etc). Even if I didn't understand all the finer points, I really enjoyed them.

I know this post is 2 days old, which puts it in some sort of reddit graveyard, but I'll add my thoughts.

First, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan is the definitive "modern" cyberpunk novel so check that out for sure.

Also, for more of a "5 minutes into the future" cyberpunk, check out the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam. The third book in the trilogy won the Philip K. Dick Award if that means anything to you.

Another series I liked, which has a great dark humor to it, is the Avery Cates series by Jeff Somers. Seriously, just read the 'About the Author' section at the bottom of that page to get an idea of the humor.

Have you read William Gibson's The Peripheral? It's a neat update on Gibson's cyberpunk vision now that the world has changed.

Someone else recommended Cory Doctorow. I actually think Little Brother is his best work, though it's young adult so prepare yourself for that.

Finally, I feel weird recommending this, but if you were a child of the 80s, have you read Ready Player One? It's pretty polarizing in this sub since you either love it or you hate it, but it is a popular modern cyberpunk novel.

I'm not going to call any of them "literature", but I've read and enjoyed a bunch of new-ish books recently.

• Ready Player One
  
  
• Little Brother/Homeland
  
  
• John Dies at the End
  
  
• Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (and pretty much anything else by Tom Robbins)

People here often complain about how stuff posted on /r/futurology almost never becomes reality. Well, rejoice! It seems the exact kind of thing Cory Doctorow predicted in his anti-surveillance book Little Brother from eight years ago has now become reality.

A paragraph from a summary of the book:

> The government has control over people in the form of surveillance which then exploits their privacy. The gait recognition system from the novel capture the privacy of individual on a visual level. This system recognizes your walking stance and corresponds your stance to one on the database.

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Little-Brother-by-Cory-Doctorow-PKNUVRATC

If I remember right from the book, the system could also be easily abused, as people could just start "walking funny" to fool it.

Cory Doctorow is my boy. Good memories of reading him when younger. That man knows how to sell books to young teenagers with his "nerd fucks not-so-attractive-but-also-nerd-girl-with-female-body-parts" side narrative.

https://smile.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765323117

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-brother-cory-doctorow/1100352914#/

(corporations are all evil but there's not exactly an anarchist publisher that carries this and B&N donates to Dems and doesn't make workers piss in bottles)

and

https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ - free pdf

Relevant

Quote: "after a terrorist attack in San Francisco, he and his friends are swept up in the extralegal world of the Department of Homeland Security. "

Withur We
Bonus points that it is scifi and FREE for download. Not only does the author present a "big brother" government but he also offers a solution.

Also check out anything by Cory Doctorow. Little Brother
Found the epub for free also.

Ready, Player One is a great read, and there is nothing like it. I'll give you something similar. Cory Doctorow, who is mentioned in Ready, Player One has two YA novels. Little Brother is very apt considering the whole Snowden situation. For the gamer in you I recommend For the Win, it's the modern day successor to Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle.

What's your favorite manga/anime?

I'm not sure what genres they are, but my current favorites are The Martian by Andy Weir, The Monster Hunters Series by Larry Correia, and Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.