Cory Doctorow – Little Brother
Marco Stabile, alias Salomom Xeno, ci regala una bella recensione di un romanzo molto attuale come tematiche. E’ nato come romanzo per ragazzi ma non stona per nulla nelle librerie di chi ha parecchi anni di più.
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother (2008)
Tor Books
pp. 384
Sinossi (Dal sito dell’autore)
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases …