Attack Surface

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Cory Doctorow: Attack Surface (2020, Head of Zeus)

384 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2020 by Head of Zeus.

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A technothriller, the third book in the Little Brother series. Masha has to reckon with the fact that the surveillance tools she created are being used to target her best friend, a BLM activist.

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reviewed Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, #3)

attack surface

I'll read anything Doctorow puts out. Enjoyed this techno-thriller, though the pacing felt vaguely off at times. Had a bit of Heinlein-esque unsubtle author monologuing through the mouths of charismatic and hypercompetent characters on the nature of technology as at best a tool for connecting and enabling humans to participate in person-to-person organizing and democracy, rather than as a magic wand that makes the world better -- you can clearly feel the period and mood he was writing this in.

Subjects

  • American literature