writecathy recommends Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by Jon Katz

persky recommends Reflex by Steven Gould

persky recommends Alan Mendelsohn, the boy from Mars by Daniel Manus Pinkwater, "From the afterword "Many novelists have tackled parts of the story in Little Brother. Daniel Pinkwater’s towering comic masterpiece ... is a book that (see more) every geek needs to read.""

persky recommends The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier by Michael Bruce Sterling, "The book that turned Doctorow on to the EFF and a real world account of various government agencies cracking down on teenage hackers."

espertus recommends The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, "Very different in many ways but also about rebelling against an unjust government with the help of technology."

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