6th December – Anarchist FAQ launch and Radical Independent Bookfair

SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2008
STUC
333 Woodlands Road
Glasgow
G3 6NG
(near Kelvinbridge U)

FUN,FOOD,FILMS+BOOKS.

Free Entry.

Review of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Earlier this evening I sat down to read a wee bit of Cory Doctorow’s new novel Little Brother. Little Brother is a novel for young adults that involves a bunch of young hacker kids going toe to toe with the department of homeland security(DHS) in the US, you’ll forgive me for not linking to their website I hope.

The basic plot of the book is that these kids in San Francisco are skipping school to play a game that involves online and offline play, an ‘Alternate Reality Game’, when a terrorist attack destroys the Bay Bridge. The kids get scooped up in the dragnet of the DHS and whisked off to an interrogation centre cum jail and held, interrogated and abused for a week. Upon release they are told not to talk to anyone under threat of being disappeared. One of their number however is not released and knowledge of him is denied by the DHS. The kids decide to fight back with all the talents that they as hacker kids posses.