I stopped feeling for the light switch and went to the window, opening the blinds from the edge, looking down. Then I heard a scream from the street below, and a car horn, and then more screams, and then a terrible, rending crash. I sat up, looking around, reaching for my bag, shucking swiftly out of the sleep-sack, trying to remember where the light was, where I’d left my shoes. I woke to find myself in the dark room, with the sense that there had just been a loud noise.
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In the excerpt below, Masha finds herself in a squalid Slovstakia hotel, recently fired by her employer Xoth and no longer able to assist her favored band of street resisters, led by Chriztina. But when the repression hits too close to home - in this case, Oakland - Masha must use her skills to protect the people she cares for the most with as little collateral damage as possible. By night, she helps those same citizens resist the very systems she has put in place to avoid the government’s intruding gaze. By day, she enables tin-pot dictators around the world to repress and surveil their citizens. It follows Yallow’s archrival, Masha Maximow, an equally talented hacker who finds herself working as a counterterrorism expert for a multinational security firm. The third installment, Attack Surface, is a standalone story set in the Little Brother universe. Its sequel, Homeland, catches up with Yallow a few years down the line as he faces an impossible choice between behaving as the heroic hacker his friends see him as and toeing the company line. They must outwit and out-hack the DHS, which has turned San Francisco into a police state. The story follows the talented teenage computer prodigy’s exploits after he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing of the Bay Bridge.
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