Attack Surface

I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow for many years now. He has a blog and is involved with the frontier of real hacking, technological exploitation, and how we are encroached upon. Not only that, but he's also focused on how we can protect ourselves. In fact, I've been a huge fan ever since Little Broth......more

This is the third volume of Little Brother series, but it can be read as a standalone. The first one, Little Brother, was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards in 2009 and was one of my most prominent reads of 2020 with my review located here. I read is as a part of monthly reading for January 2......more

I received an electronic advance copy of this book in return for a fair and honest review. What a time to have this book come out. In my mind, I was thinking trenchant and clairvoyant for this five star book, then I saw the afterword where “trenchant” was used, so you’ll have to take my word for it......more

(1) cory doctorow does incredible activism work; (2) this is a book focused on plot + ideas more so than literary execution; both of these are reasons why it's extra frustrating to me that it feels like the core tension here, masha's dilemmas, seem a bit too clean to me. like of course if you're lit......more