Homeland (Cory Doctorow novel)

HOMELAND
Author Cory Doctorow
Country USA
Language English
Subject Terrorism, cryptography, computer hackers, Department of Homeland Security, privacy, police state, Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
Genre Fiction / Cyberpunk
Publisher Tor Teen
Publication date
February 5, 2013
Media type Book
Pages 400
ISBN 978-0-7653-3369-8
Preceded by Little Brother

Homeland is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. It is a sequel to Doctorow's earlier novel, Little Brother. It was released in hardback on February 5, 2013 and subsequently released[1] for download under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website two weeks later on February 19, 2013.

The novel includes two afterword essays by computer security researcher and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, and computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Characters

Dedications

Homeland is dedicated to Doctorow's wife and daughter, Alice and Poesy.[2] As in Little Brother, Doctorow also dedicates each e-book chapter of Homeland to a different bookstore: Chapters/Indigo, BakkaPhoenix Books, Barnes & Noble, Wild Rumpus, University Bookstore at the University of Washington, Mysterious Galaxy, Anderson's Bookshops, Borderlands Books, The Tattered Cover, Uncle Hugo's, RiverRun Bookstore, Gibson's Bookstore, Busboys and Poets, Politics and Prose, Books of Wonder, Powell's Books, Amazon, Forbidden Planet.

DMCA takedown

In May 2013 SF Fanzine Ansible reported "CORY DOCTOROW on the news that links to his Creative Commons licensed novel Homeland were being taken down via DMCA requests from Fox, on the basis that Fox has an unrelated tv series with the same title: 'I think you can safely say I'm incandescent with rage. BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!' (TechCrunch, 21 April)"[3][4]

Technologies mentioned in the book

References

  1. "Free CC-licensed ebook of Homeland is live!".
  2. Doctorow, Cory (2013). Homeland. Tor Books. For Alice and Poesy, who make me whole.
  3. "Ansible 310, May 2013". News.ansible.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. John Biggs (2013-04-21). "Fox Shuts Down Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Book In Overzealous DMCA takedown". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-05-15.

External links

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