''Homeland'' is a novel by

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, published by

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. 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 (CC-BY-NC-ND) license on Doctorow's website two weeks later on February 19, 2013. The novel includes two

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essays by computer security researcher and hacker

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, and computer programmer and Internet activist

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Characters

* Marcus Yallow—Main protagonist, he is a college dropout who previously led the charge against the Department of Homeland Security in '' Little Brother''. * Angela Carvelli (Ange)—Marcus's girlfriend. * Joseph Noss—Independent candidate for the California State Senate. After being introduced by Mitch Kapor at Burning Man, Joe eventually employs Marcus as CTO of his campaign. * Carrie Johnstone—Main antagonist, Johnstone is now head of security at Zyz, a fictional military contractor. * Masha—Now a friend of Marcus who gves him the documents about Carrie Johnstone's dirty work as leverage against Carrie * Jolu (José Luis)—One of Marcus's friends who helps him as he attempts to distribute the contents of the USB drive that Masha gives to him.

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:

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, BakkaPhoenix Books, Barnes & Noble, Wild Rumpus,

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DMCA takedown

In May 2013,

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sent a

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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

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Influence

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 ''

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''.

References

External links

Official Book Page
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