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Review! Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother

Today’s book review comes from Sam Hancock, a graduate trainee working at HarperCollins currently helping out the Voyager list. Interested in writing a review of a Voyager book for our blog? Contact thevoyager@harpercollins.co.uk for more details (and quite possibly a free book!!)

Published in 2008, Little Brother cemented the already-strong reputation Cory had built on the back of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, as a blisteringly original and powerful voice in the cyber punk scene and beyond.

Following cocky 17 year old Marcus and his friends, a troop of largely carefree technophiles, we see a San Francisco thrown into confusion when the iconic Bay Bridge is attacked by terrorists. With this one event everything changes. The Department for Homeland Security (DHS) picks Marcus and his friends up near to the explosion, pumping them for information and treating them inhumanely at a secure facility they brand, ‘Guantanamo-by-the-Bay.’

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is co-editor of BoingBoing.net and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award and was named one of the internet’s top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you’ll use technology to change the world.

Want to know more about Cory? Follow the links below…
Visit Cory’s websites: Boing Boing and Craphound
Follow Cory on Twitter
List of Cory’s books by title

Now out from Cory Doctorow:

Makers (Paperback – July 2010)
Read an extract from Makers

 Perry and Lester invent things. All sorts of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent an entirely new economic system for the technological era, dubbed ‘New Work’, which leads barefoot bankers to microinvest in high-tech communal start-ups all over the country, just like Perry and Lester’s. They are transforming a country, and journalist Suzanne Church is there to document every moment.

But when the ‘New Work’ bubble finally bursts, it puts the dot.com-bomb to shame. Down but not out, Perry and Lester go back to what they do best – making stuff. Jealous of their new-found success, a rogue Disney executive convinces the police that their amazing 3-D printers are being used to run off AK-47s, and things get very dark very quickly…

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Voyager; 2009 Round-up

Our authors have brought you some wonderful worlds to escape into this year, from favourite destinations, such as Midkemia and the Rain Wilds, to virgin territories like Thesia and The Devona Set; so many in fact, that it would be impossible – ok, annoying – to list them all for you in one newsletter. So here’s just a taste of the adventures Voyager fans enjoyed – or have yet to enjoy – from the year 2009…

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