Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

A nemesis from Marcus’ past comes back – Masha –, but this time it’s Masha that is kidnapped, detained, and tortured, and the only person to witness it is Marcus. Marcus’ past as being a hacker lands him a job as a webmaster for a certain politician that promises change and reform. If you’re planning to read Doctorow’s books in order, Homeland is the second novel and it deals with the economic collapse of California. From here on then, Marcus declares war on the Department of Homeland Security, and we see Doctorow’s opinions on subjects like law and freedom, through the lens of Marcus. The way that this squadron is explained and how it works pays homage to the Thought Police featured in George Orwell’s classic 1984. In no time, martial law sets in – a Department of Homeland Security with its group of thugs that are led by a lady with a ‘severe haircut’. Whatever frivolous and lighthearted teenager gags do take place, all, rather quickly, take a marginal position because of the attack. For more similar books about teens being the main protagonists. He is a hip and tech-savvy person, attempting to stay away from issues with the principal’s assistant. Our main character is Marcus, a teenager.

It is centered around a post-September 11th terrorist attack on America. Little Brother attacks and tackles quite the sensitive topics surrounding the overall dystopian theme of the book. It is also one of the best-selling books by Doctorow. It is part of Doctorow’s series, featuring two other books – Homeland, published in 2013, and a shorter e-book called Lawful Interception, published in 2013, too. Little Brother was published in the year of 2008. Doctorow is a very capable author and now we are going to take a look at our picks for the best-rated Cory Doctorow books. It was subsequently sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario in the year of 2003. In June of 1999, Cory along with John Henson and Grad Conn founded the free software P2P company Opencola. Cory went to four different universities but didn’t acquire a diploma from any of them. SEED School acted as an anarchistic ‘free school’ in the city of Toronto. SEED School was where Cory received his high school diploma. CareerĬommon themes in the writing of Doctorow – which are incidentally uncommon themes in the writings of other authors – are the following: file-sharing, managing digital rights, and ‘post-scarcity’ economics. The organization uses a portion of its licenses for Cory’s books. In his freest of time, Cory is an activist, trying to liberalize copyright laws, and also a big proponent of the organization called ‘Creative Commons’. He also spent some time as the co-editor of the blog named Boing Boing. Cory is a Canadian-British science fiction writer, a blogger, journalist. Cory Efram Doctorow was born on the 17th of July 1971, in Toronto, Canada.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow