Books & Books, Coral Gables. February 15, 2013. 7:00 p.m.
Cory Doctorow (www.craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK) and Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo (Canada); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, “The William Gibson of his generation.” He was also named one of Forbes Magazine’s 2007/8/9/10 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2007. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Doctorow is the ultimate crossover author, whose sharp writing and commitment to investigating the hot-button political and technological issues of today (and tomorrow) engage YA and adult readers alike. This sequel to Little Brother, a New York Times best-selling and multi-award winning cult favorite, finds Marcus (alias M1K3y) working as webmaster for a reform-minded politician after funds for his college tuition go south with the California economy. Former girlfriend Masha has just palmed him a thumb drive with enough whistle-blowing data about corporate and governmental malfeasance to make Julian Assange blush, but concerns about his employer, his parents, his hacktavist admirers, and the tough guys who seem to be trailing him mean that he’ll move very cautiously.
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