** Great Read! **

I just finished a fabulous new book by Cory Doctorow, who is a science fiction writer. He is also co-editor for the popular website www.boingboing.net and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Synopsis:

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 surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

Little Brother is a "rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion"
-Scott Westerfield, author of Uglies, Pretties, and Specials.
A worthy younger sibling to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cory Doctorow's
Little Brotheris lively, precocious, and, most important, a little scary."
-Brian K. Vaughan, author of the graphic novel, Y:The Last Man.

Doctorow will be discussing his book at the Los Altos Library and books will be available for purchase. BTW, you won't be able to check it out from the library because I have it!!

Time: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:00 p.m.
Location: Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022
Phone: 650-948-7683

You can also download the book here.