{"id":57,"date":"2009-04-18T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/18\/little-brother\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T13:59:28","slug":"little-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/little-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, Little Brother<\/a> by Cory Doctorow<\/a> is fantastic story about a young adult growing up in a post 9\/11 world full of paranoia, who gets caught up by Homeland Security after a terrorist attack on San Francisco. It paints a bleak view of how much power the authorities could gain if people let them, to monitor all activities and take people with no reason or apologies.<\/p>\n

The reluctant hero of the story, Marcus, has a choice after caught wether to lie back and accept the new world order, or fight back. This leads to a fantastic story of someone growing up rather quickly and fighting back against the authorities that wrongly imprisoned him.<\/p>\n

The second aspect of this book is the fact that it is open source. Published under a creative commons license<\/a> the book is available as a free download as well as the more traditional dead tree<\/a> version. Even better, the downloads page has the story in just about any format you could want, including the standard format for the Sony PRS-505<\/a>. The author has written up his reasons for offering the book for free<\/a>, along with suggesting ideas for donations<\/a> if you enjoy the story.<\/p>\n

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story and have since bought it to pass onto friends<\/a> and urge others to do the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, Little Brother<\/a> by Cory Doctorow<\/a> is fantastic story about a young adult growing up in a post 9\/11 world full of paranoia, who gets caught up by Homeland Security after a terrorist attack on San Francisco. It paints a bleak view of how much power the authorities could gain if people let them, to monitor all activities and take people with no reason or apologies. <\/p>\n

The reluctant hero of the story, Marcus, has a choice after caught wether to lie back and accept the new world order, or fight back. This leads to a fantastic story of someone growing up rather quickly and fighting back against the authorities that wrongly imprisoned him.<\/p>\n

The second aspect of this book is the fact that it is open source. Published under a creative commons license<\/a> the book is available as a free download as well as the more traditional dead tree<\/a> version. Even better, the downloads page has the story in just about any format you could want, including the standard format for the Sony PRS-505<\/a>. The author has written up his reasons for offering the book for free<\/a>, along with suggesting ideas for donations<\/a> if you enjoy the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70,78,86,135],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-book-review","tag-cory-doctorow","tag-ebook","tag-prs-505"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}