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Little Brother is the best anti-authoritarian novel of the 21st Century. Although it is sometimes juvenile in its perspectives, since it is told from the standpoint of a high school student, it is otherwise comparable in many respects with Orwell's 1984.
Cory Doctorow [who I had previously never heard of] has joined the ranks of the libertarian greats in one giant step. May he take many more steps of similar stride.