Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications including the Guardian, Locus, and Publishers Weekly. He was named one of the Web's twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His award-winning YA novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Born and raised in Canada, he currently lives in London.
"His most cogent, energizing call-to-arms to date." --Booklist, starred review "Funny, thought-provoking, and glorious." --School Library Journal (starred review) "Fun...Pirate Cinema offers ample and appetizing food for thought." --Seattle Times "A wonderful, important book...I'd recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I've read this year." --Neil Gaiman on Little Brother "A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion." --Scott Westerfeld on Little Brother "A terrific read ... A neat story and a cogently written, passionately felt argument. It's a stirring call to arms." --The New York Times on Little Brother "One of the year's most important books." --Chicago Tribune on Little Brother "A worthy younger sibling to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary." --Brian K. Vaughan, author of the graphic novel Y: The Last Man on Little Brother "Believable and frightening...Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions of how to counteract gait-recognition cameras, arphids (radio frequency ID tags), wireless Internet tracers and other surveillance devices, this work makes its admittedly didactic point within a tautly crafted fictional framework." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Little Brother "I'm a huge fan of Little Brother. Reading about m1k3y, Ange, and their friends helped me visualize the escalating intrusions on our freedom and privacy wrought by advances in technology. The book describes a dystopia that seems chillingly plausible-and near." --Alex Kozinski, Chief Justice of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Little Brother "Freaking cool...Doctorow is terrific at finding the human aura shimmering around technology." --Los Angeles Times on Little Brother
In Doctorow's novel set in the not too distant future, 16-year-old Trent McCauley gets his family in big trouble due to his unrepentant Internet piracy. With things going badly at home and the family banned from the Internet, Trent opts to run away to London, where he learns to live on the streets. In this audio edition, narrator Bruce Mann-whose native British accent is ideal for the story-does his best to embody Trent but turns in a middling performance. Though his interpretations of the supporting characters, particularly Trent's mother, are believable and understated, the majority of his reading sounds forced and unnatural. At times it sounds as if he's reading rather than performing. Mann seems unable to really let himself get lost within the story, and because of his reading listeners will suffer the same fate. Ages 12-up. A Tor hardcover. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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