Homeland is dedicated to Doctorow's wife and daughter, Alice and Poesy. 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. Masha-Now a friend of Marcus who gves him the documents about Carrie Johnstone's dirty work as leverage against Carrie.Carrie Johnstone-Main antagonist, Johnstone is now head of security at Zyz, a fictional military contractor.After being introduced by Mitch Kapor at Burning Man, Joe eventually employs Marcus as CTO of his campaign. Joseph Noss-Independent candidate for the California State Senate.Angela Carvelli (Ange)-Marcus's girlfriend.Marcus Yallow-Main protagonist, he is a college dropout who previously led the charge against the Department of Homeland Security in Little Brother.The novel includes two afterword essays by computer security researcher and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, and computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. 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. It is a sequel to Doctorow's earlier novel, Little Brother. Homeland is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books.
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Wolfe, in a review for Locus, wrote that memory "may be characteristic theme". Several critics noted the atmosphere of loss, nostalgia, music and reinvention throughout the collection. " And Then There Were (N-One)" (originally published in Uncanny Magazine, 2017 )."No Lonely Seafarer" (originally published in Lightspeed, 2014 )."In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" (originally published in Strange Horizons, 2013 ).
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