From Cory Doctorow’s Introduction to Little Brother: “I wrote Little Brother in a white-hot fury between May 7, 2007 and July 2, 2007: exactly eight weeks from the day I thought it up to the day I finished it (Alice, to whom this book is dedicated, had to put up with me clacking out the final chapter at 5AM in our hotel in Rome, where we were celebrating our anniversary). I’d always dreamed of having a book just materialize, fully formed, and come pouring out of my fingertips, no sweat and fuss — but it wasn’t nearly as much fun as I’d thought it would be.” [Editor's Note: "Little Brother" is published and sold like a regular book, but you can download the whole thing for free if you prefer; I've read one of Doctorow's books, and was impressed; you may know him as the proprietor of BoingBoing.net]