Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother Published This Week
Jeff VanderMeer • May 1st, 2008 @ 7:55 am • Culture
Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last few months, you know that Cory Doctorow’s subversive YA novel Little Brother was published this week in hardcover. I’ve just done a round-up of some of the critical reaction in an Amazon post.
I’m not sure the core audience for this book–teens/young adults–is going to pick it up in hardcover, but certainly in trade paperback. And Tor has sent review copies to a ton of high schools, and I’m sure high school libraries will pick the book up.
Anyway, I think it’s Doctorow’s most important book and I’m curious to see what reaction it gets in certain quarters.
May 1, 2008 at 9:21 am
Squee!
I got an ARC from PNH, but then me and Puppy (my 13 year old) went and picked up a hardcover yesterday too–we got the last one on the shelf, and the clerk said a lot of people had been coming in particularly to get it. (As did we, but we left with more. We always do.).
I did a review of sorts on my LJ. It is primarily “hurray! really good book!” and then “elections matter!!”.
May 1, 2008 at 10:19 am
What I’ve heard about the book reminds me a lot of “Covert Generation,” a roleplaying game my friend Caz Granberg did a couple of years back. Kids act as undercover monkeywrenchers and subversives attempting to overthrow a corrupt adult society. Very interested in checking it out.