Series
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow · 3 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 2008–2024
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother follows Marcus, a San Francisco teenager who builds a covert mesh network, the Xnet, to organize resistance after the Department of Homeland Security uses a terrorist attack as pretext for mass surveillance and civil-rights violations. Homeland continues Marcus's fight years later, and Attack Surface completes the trilogy; a companion story, 'Lawful Interception,' and other short pieces extend the same near-future world. Throughout, the series doubles as a working explanation of the surveillance and cryptography tools its characters use.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Little Brother at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s2
- 2020s4
Shape
3 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionsurveillancenorth americacontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Lawful Interceptiondarkest · calmest
- Little Brotherbrightest
- Homelandmost intense