Thread by @doctorow

In just two weeks, @torbooks publishes ATTACK SURFACE, the third Little Brother book! To celebrate, they're serializing Chapter 1 on the web at tor.com:

tor.com/2020/09/28/rea…

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Attack Surface is a standalone novel intended for adults and set in the world of Little Brother. It's the tale of Masha Maximow, a surveillance contractor who's far better at computers than Marcus Yallow, hero of Little Brother and Homeland, and who works for the other side.

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Here's how Tor put it:

Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side.

In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents and track their every move.

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The perks were fantastic, pay was obscene.

Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable.

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When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture.

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But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family—including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists—Masha realizes she has to choose.

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And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt.

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If you like the sound of that and pre-order the book before the release date, you also get Force Multiplier, a free Little Brother ebook and audiobook:

read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksu…

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Tor's publishing in Canada and the US; if you're in the UK or another English-speaking country, you can get the @HoZ_Books edition, which comes out on Oct 1, giving you just days to request a copy of Force Multiplier:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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If you'd prefer to listen to Chapter 1, you can check out the special 3-hour edition of my podcast, in which I include an excerpt of @amber_benson's reading from the audiobook:

craphound.com/podcast/2020/0…

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And speaking of the audiobook, you have a mere NINE DAYS to pre-order it for $15 via Kickstarter, after which it will set you back $25:

kickstarter.com/projects/docto…

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I'm doing a whole lecture series with many special guests do discuss the themes of the book, the "Attack Surface Lectures," each of which comes with a signed copy of the book (or a bookplate and a copy of the book) included in the ticket price:

read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-…

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