Author Cory Doctorow combines his tech savvy (he is editor of Boing Boing and a former director of the Electronic. It's going to thrill teens even as it worries and disturbs some parents. Moving at light speed with a light touch, the novel mixes up a frothy cocktail of technological speculation and a wide variety of geeky in-jokes (unobtanium, Vogon poetry, “all the way up to 11”). Our review: Parents say ( 8 ): Kids say ( 25 ): This is by far the most exciting, breathtaking, mind-altering, and provocative book to come out in years. Huw is chased to North America, where he becomes female with stereotype-laden results, dodges fundamentalists and intelligent anarchist ants, and is unexpectedly uploaded and made the solar system’s ambassador to the ominous galactic Authority. He soon falls into a “flash conspiracy” involving a hanging judge in a Dalek-like wheelchair, a wannabe transhuman, and a sybaritic conspiracy theorist.

Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

Huw Jones, a Welsh potter abandoned by parents who ascended to the interplanetary smartcloud, receives a summons for jury service, where he will decide what of the posthumans’ donations is worth taking and what’s too dangerous to touch. Marcus, a.k.a w1n5t0n, is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system worksand how to work the system. Doctorow (Little Brother) and Stross (Rule 34) take a comic tour of a post-Singularity solar system where posthumans dump digital junk on the “pre-posthumans” who cling to terrestrial life. EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the feature rights to Little Brother, the New York Times bestselling novel by Cory Doctorow, for Angry Film producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford. The Little Brother book series by Cory Doctorow includes books Little Brother, Homeland, Attack Surface, and several more.

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