| HOMELAND | |
| Author: | Cory Doctorow |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Terrorism, cryptography, computer hackers, Department of Homeland Security, privacy, police state, dystopian young adult fiction |
| Genre: | Fiction / Cyberpunk |
| Publisher: | Tor Teen |
| Pub Date: | February 5, 2013 |
| Media Type: | Book |
| Pages: | 400 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-7653-3369-8 |
| Preceded By: | Little Brother |
| Followed By: | Lawful interceptionAttack Surface |
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[1] for download under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license on Doctorow's website two weeks later on February 19, 2013.
The novel includes two afterword essays by computer security researcher and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, and computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
Homeland is dedicated to Doctorow's wife and daughter, Alice and Poesy.[2] 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 Book Store 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.
In May 2013, 20th Century Fox 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 the same title.
When contacted by TorrentFreak, Doctorow expressed that he was "incandescent with rage" and jokingly added "BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!"[3] [4]
In 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was reading Homeland while communicating with a source that was actually whistleblower Edward Snowden.When she met him in The Mira Hotel in Hong Kong, she gave him a copy that he took in his trip ending with exile in Russia.The book can be seen in his room as he packs in her documentary film CitizenFour.[5]