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Little Brother (Little Brother, 1)

Cory Doctorow

The first in Cory Doctorow’s Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveilla...

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Behind the Bastards

Corey Doctorow mentioned his own book, "Little Brother", published in 2008, which explored themes of surveillance and technology. He noted that he had been writing about these topics since 2006.

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...and working with EFF it was impossible to miss...Was there a degree to which I guess were you surprised by anything that happened last summer or did it just kind of comprehensively feel like everyt...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 14

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 14

Corey Doctorow mentioned his own book, "Little Brother", published in 2008, which explored themes of surveillance and technology. He noted that he had been writing about these topics since 2006.

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...and working with EFF it was impossible to miss...Was there a degree to which I guess were you surprised by anything that happened last summer or did it just kind of comprehensively feel like everything's slotting into place that I knew was heading in this direction because yeah you're right everything was kind of presaged years before...I'm wondering if there was anything that kind of surprised you or was it all just sort of what you'd been braced for?

Yeah I don't feel like there were any kind of surveillance surprises...this expansion of surveillance has been on my mind for a long time I've been writing about it at least since "Little Brother" so 2006 I wrote that novel and I've had my finger in that for all that time...

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