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Cory Doctorow is co-editor of BoingBoing.net and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award and was named one of the internet's top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you'll use technology to change the world.

'Doctorow's novel fizzes with ideas and jumps with breathtaking speed from one technological breakthrough to another until you're no longer sure what's based on reality and what's purely a figment of his inventive mind ! Doctorow's optimism about the technology of the present and the near future is infectious' Guardian 'Fresh and full of thought-provoking ideas, a book about tomorrow that demands to be read now.' The Times 'A compelling near-future tale ! a complex, ideas-led, thought-provoking book ! the vivid characters and meticulously crafted future make this a book well worth checking out' SFX 'A tour de force ! one of the most brilliant reimaginings of the near future since cyberpunk wore out its mirror shades ! bitingly realistic and miraculously avoids cliche or predictability' Publishers Weekly 'Doctorow brilliantly shows us a near-future that's equally wondrous, inspiring and terrifying' BBC Focus 'There is plenty in Cory Doctorow's fifth novel to get technology buffs salivating ! interesting and effective' Metro 'Prodigiously inventive ! intriguing' Daily Mail 'Exhilarating and thought-provoking' Courier Mail (Australia) 'A gread read' Good Reading (Australia) 'Bursting with ideas' Sydney Morning Herald Praise for Little Brother: 'I'd recommend 'Little Brother' over pretty much any book I've read this year. Because I think it'll change lives. It's a wonderful, important book' Neil Gaiman 'Cory Doctorow's novel could hardly be more relevant, scary and eye-opening ! seriously entertaining.' The Times 'A cracking read' Guardian

'Doctorow's novel fizzes with ideas and jumps with breathtaking speed from one technological breakthrough to another until you're no longer sure what's based on reality and what's purely a figment of his inventive mind ... Doctorow's optimism about the technology of the present and the near future is infectious' Guardian

'Fresh and full of thought-provoking ideas, a book about tomorrow that demands to be read now.' The Times

'A compelling near-future tale ... a complex, ideas-led, thought-provoking book ... the vivid characters and meticulously crafted future make this a book well worth checking out' SFX

'A tour de force ... one of the most brilliant reimaginings of the near future since cyberpunk wore out its mirror shades ... bitingly realistic and miraculously avoids cliché or predictability' Publishers Weekly

'Doctorow brilliantly shows us a near-future that's equally wondrous, inspiring and terrifying' BBC Focus

'There is plenty in Cory Doctorow's fifth novel to get technology buffs salivating ... interesting and effective' Metro

'Prodigiously inventive ... intriguing' Daily Mail

'Exhilarating and thought-provoking' Courier Mail (Australia)

'A gread read' Good Reading (Australia)

'Bursting with ideas' Sydney Morning Herald

Praise for Little Brother:

'I'd recommend 'Little Brother' over pretty much any book I've read this year. Because I think it'll change lives. It's a wonderful, important book' Neil Gaiman

'Cory Doctorow's novel could hardly be more relevant, scary and eye-opening ... seriously entertaining.' The Times

'A cracking read' Guardian