Little Brother Audiobook

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• “A wonderful, important book…I’d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I’ve read this year, and I’d want to get it into the hands of as many smart thirteen-year-olds, male and female, as I can. Because I think it’ll change lives. Because some kids, maybe just a few, won’t be the same after they’ve read it. Maybe they’ll change politically, maybe technologically. Maybe it’ll just be the first book they loved or that spoke to their inner geek. Maybe they’ll want to argue about it and disagree with it. Maybe they’ll want to open their computer and see what’s in there. I don’t know. It made me want to be thirteen again right now, and reading it for the first time.”

  — Neil Gaiman, New York Times bestselling author

• “A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion.”

  — Scott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author

• “An entertaining thriller…Little Brother is also a practical handbook of digital self-defense. Marcus’s guided tour through RFID cloners, cryptography, and Bayesian math is one of the book’s principal delights…Little Brother is a terrific read, but it also claims a place in the tradition of polemical science-fiction novels like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 (with a dash of ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’).”

  — New York Times

• “This novel brims with new and evolving technology, which may fascinate some readers and bog down others. But the well-integrated explanations, plot twists, humor, and romance between Marcus and a “h4wt” (translation: “hot”) geeky babe will keep this thriller humming along even for techno-duhs. Cory Doctorow tackles timely issues, including the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security. Hopefully, teens will pass this cautionary tale on to parents, teachers, and government officials.”

  — Washington Post

• “Little Brother is generally awesome in the more vernacular sense: It’s pretty freaking cool…A fluid, instantly ingratiating fiction writer…He’s also terrific at finding the human aura shimmering around technology.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Doctorow throws off cool ideas the way champagne generates bubbles…[He] definitely has the goods.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco…Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions…within a tautly crafted fictional framework.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Readers will delight in the details of how Marcus attempts to stage a techno-revolution…Buy multiple copies; this book will be h4wt (that’s ‘hot,’ for the nonhackers).”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority…Raising pertinent questions and fostering discussion, this techno-thriller is an outstanding first purchase.”

  — School Library Journal (starred review)