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    <dc:title>Little Brother</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="93">Cory Doctorow</dc:author>
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    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0765319853</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>2008</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Young Readers</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Science Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Marcus, a.k.a &#8220;w1n5t0n,&#8221; is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works&#8211;and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school&#8217;s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they&#8217;re mercilessly interrogated for days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <author id="93">
    <name>Doctorow, Cory</name>
    <birth>1971</birth>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>25</books>
    <downloads>310228</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, and uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <book id="228">
    <dc:title>Accelerando</dc:title>
    <dc:author id="110">Charles Stross</dc:author>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228</dc:identifier>
    <dc:identifier scheme="URI">urn:isbn:0441014151</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:date>2005</dc:date>
    <dc:subject>Novels</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Science Fiction</dc:subject>
    <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004.
&lt;br /&gt;The first three stories follow the character of &quot;venture altruist&quot; Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century.
&lt;br /&gt;According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <author id="110">
    <name>Stross, Charles</name>
    <birth>1964</birth>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>3</books>
    <downloads>27394</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;Charles David George &quot;Charlie&quot; Stross (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod and Liz Williams. Obvious inspirations include Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, among other cyberpunk and postcyberpunk writers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;His first published short story, &quot;The Boys&quot;, appeared in Interzone in 1987: his first novel, Singularity Sky was published by Ace in 2003 and was nominated for the Hugo Award. A collection of his short stories, Toast: And Other Rusted Futures appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella &quot;The Concrete Jungle&quot; won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. Most recently, Accelerando won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the year's best science fiction novel, and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Glasshouse is on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for Advanced Dungeons &amp; Dragons in the White Dwarf magazine. Some of his creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R. Martin's book, Dying of the Light), githzerai, and slaad were later published in the Fiend Folio monster compendium.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In addition to working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Rogue Farm, a machinima film based on his 2003 short story of the same title, debuted in August 2004.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He is one of the Guests of Honour at Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in March 2008.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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