Well yes to all counts.Cory has better books, like my favorite Eastern Standard Tribe.But by the looks of it, Makers looks like it will beat EST. Also the peop

Well yes to all counts.Cory has better books, like my favorite Eastern Standard Tribe.But by the looks of it, Makers looks like it will beat EST. Also the people who dont like "Little Brother" is a minority but a big one. I liked it very much personal but the points given by some of my online friends for not liking it also appealed to me. As I am a die heart fan I over looked the improbability of having a big network like the Xnet mentioned based on the XBoxs. I also gave cory the benefit of doubt over the issue of government following such hard measures which will forgo the right of privacy of citizens. But having said all that, I liked the plot a lot and whats a Science fiction without some umm... fiction in it. I have already read some of makers, and to tell the truth I am not that much hooked as much I would like. But that may be because there were so distractions then.This novel is also about hackers.But not network hackers but the other kind.Which do not always get that tag now, although the term was invented for them and by them only (the railroad hackers at MIT invented the term "hack" for a cool modification which was too clever). Those are the hardware hackers. It is about a team of hardware hacker which are making Hardware Art for collectors. Only got that much from whatever I have read. May be the second seating will be more hooking.