Cory Doctorow
Thursday, February 7th 2013  7:30pm
San Francisco, CA

http://www.booksmith.com

In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful *Little Brother*, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco -- an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff -- and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, *Homeland* is every bit the equal of *Little Brother *--* *a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

Location:
The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA