About the Book
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Brother, Cory Doctorow comes a new tale of a disaffected brilliant youngster who finds himself standing up to tyranny
Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making
movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he
downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access to the
internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal.
Trent's too
clever for that too happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his
family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly he learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in
touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity,
making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke.
Things look bad. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates.
But the powers-that-be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a
gripping movie to change people’s minds…
