Author: corydoctorow

Cyber sweatshops, heroic sysadmins, and invisible ants: Information technology spins out of control in this mind-bending collection of sci-fi novellas from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author! “Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation” (Entertainment Weekly).

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist … terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison…