8 /10 1 Votes
Language English Publication date February 5, 2013 Pages 400 Page count 400 Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Genre Fiction / Cyberpunk Media type Book Originally published 5 February 2013 Preceded by Little Brother Publisher Tor Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Terrorism, cryptography, computer hackers, Department of Homeland Security, privacy, police state, Dystopian Young Adult Fiction Similar Little Brother, Pirate Cinema, For the Win, Down and Out in the Magic Kin, The Rapture of the Nerds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 for download under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website two weeks later on February 19, 2013.
Contents
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. 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, 20th Century Fox has sent a DMCA takedown request to Google to remove links to Cory Doctorow's novel Homeland, on the basis that 20th Century Fox owns an unrelated TV series with same title.
When contacted by TorrentFreak, Doctorow has expressed that he is "incandescent with rage" and jokingly added "BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!"