Title: Streams of Babel
Author: Carol Plum-Ucci
ISBN: 0152165568
Plot Summary: Cora Holman is a high school outcast with a tormented, drug-addicted mother. When her mother and several neighbors die of a mysterious new ailment, Cora and her friends become increasingly alarmed when they too start getting sick. She and her friend Scott discover an abandoned store which appears to have been occupied by, and bears graffiti from, terrorists. Meanwhile, Shahzad Hamdani, a young Pakistani computer genius, has begun to notice some disturbing internet chatter among terrorist groups regarding a new weapon known only as Red Vinegar. Shahzad and Cora's lives will intersect as they both try to figure out what is killing people in Cora's neighborhood, who is causing it, and how it can be stopped.
Showing posts with label Computer Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer Science. Show all posts
Little Brother
Title: Little Brother
Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 0765319853
Plot Summary: Marcus is a high school student in the San Francisco of the near, dystopian future. His every move is tracked electronically, either by cameras, bar codes, computers, or even the free laptop computers distributed by his school. But he is a computer genius, and he and his friends Jolu, Van and Darryl have determined a number of ways to beat the system. That is, until they all get caught in the midst of a terrorist attack on the city and are detained by the Department of Homeland Security. In the aftermath of the event, his subsequent "enhanced interrogation," and the disappearance of one of his friends Marcus becomes determined to beat the DHS at their own game, with his other friends as sometimes unwilling accomplices.
Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 0765319853
Plot Summary: Marcus is a high school student in the San Francisco of the near, dystopian future. His every move is tracked electronically, either by cameras, bar codes, computers, or even the free laptop computers distributed by his school. But he is a computer genius, and he and his friends Jolu, Van and Darryl have determined a number of ways to beat the system. That is, until they all get caught in the midst of a terrorist attack on the city and are detained by the Department of Homeland Security. In the aftermath of the event, his subsequent "enhanced interrogation," and the disappearance of one of his friends Marcus becomes determined to beat the DHS at their own game, with his other friends as sometimes unwilling accomplices.
Be More Chill
Title: Be More Chill
Author: Ned Vizzini
ISBN: 0060747811 (Audio Book)
Reader: Jesse Eisenberg
Plot Summary: Jeremy Heere is just an average teenage boy, pining after a girl who doesn't know he exists - until he hears about a tiny internal supercomputer that can help you learn how to be cool, and win over any girl you want. This computer, known as a "squip," does everything it promises on the label at first, but Jeremy soon finds out that being the "cool" guy the squip wants him to become isn't everything he initially thought it would be.
Author: Ned Vizzini
ISBN: 0060747811 (Audio Book)
Reader: Jesse Eisenberg
Plot Summary: Jeremy Heere is just an average teenage boy, pining after a girl who doesn't know he exists - until he hears about a tiny internal supercomputer that can help you learn how to be cool, and win over any girl you want. This computer, known as a "squip," does everything it promises on the label at first, but Jeremy soon finds out that being the "cool" guy the squip wants him to become isn't everything he initially thought it would be.
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