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toc =Welcome to the Little Brother Study Wiki= As part of my teaching, I have chosen to study Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. Rather than rehash what has already been written about it (that'll be a job for my class!), here're a couple of 'blurbs' and reviews of the book:

"I'd recommend //Little Brother// over pretty much any book I've read this year" **Neil Gaiman (full review on Gaiman's Blog)** "An entertaining thriller and a thoughtful polemic on internet-era civil rights... a terrific read" //**New York Times**// "A tale of struggle familiar to any teenager, about those moments when you choose what your life is going to mean" Steven Gould, author of //**Jumper**//

The Text
The novel is freely available to buy from Amazon, or you can get it for FREE from Cory Doctorow's own website. It's available as a text file, PDF and an HTML file. In addition, there are numerous fan conversions to allow you to download a copy suitable for your own electronic device... so you have absolutely no excuse for not getting a copy!

As an extra special treat, I emailed the author and asked if he would let us reproduce the text on this wiki to allow us to study and annotate it as we go... here's his reply:

So... if you look at the navigation panel, you can find links to the various chapters and we'll be looking at these and commenting on them as we go... You'll also notice that there is a 'Discussion' tab at the top of each page. I'll post some questions for you to attempt as we go along, and you can also use the tab to ask your own questions.

The Themes
One of the reasons for looking at Little Brother is that as well as being a cracking read, it does throw up some really, really interesting questions about personal freedom and rights... in other words, it should help you find really worthwhile ideas for using for your Discursive Writing. More on this later!