Head Grenade Productions

Well, actually, I was going to do a post on this today, but the “short update” I did for Gundam 00 turned ou tot take a little longer than I had planned. I want to mention this novel, though, because I do want to take some time to talk about it.So I’m just going to mention a great little novel called Little Brother.

Cory Doctorow wrote a young adult novel based around recent political and social ramifications started by the 9/11 terror attacks and the Patriot Act, and spins a tale about how a young group of kids take on the Department of Homeland Security cracking down on personal freedoms in San Fransisco after a second terror attack there. There’s a lot of cool privacy and security technology he pulls in, a lot of which is home-made and cheap as dirt (perfect for high school age “miscreants” or college-age-English-major-turning-aspiring-novelists . . . ^^; ) as well as real solutions and questions we have in our day and age. Plus, for those non-technical out there, it’s pretty accessible and explains the theory and ideas behind all the technology very clearly and fully. And for those of us who are tech-loving (I found out about this through a tech podcast myself), there’s a lot of useful tools buried in it. There’s even a free version online, through Cory Doctoro’s site, which you can download with the entire text.

And here’s the site.

Now pass it along.