Homeland is dedicated to Doctorow's wife and daughter, Alice and Poesy.

In May 2013, 20th Century Fox sent a DMCA takedown request to Google to remove links to Cory Doctorow's novel Homeland, on the basis that 20th Century Fox owns an unrelated TV series with the same title.

When contacted by TorrentFreak, Doctorow expressed that he was "incandescent with rage" and jokingly added "BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!

"[3][4] In 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was reading Homeland while communicating with a source that was actually whistleblower Edward Snowden.

When she met him in The Mira Hotel in Hong Kong, she gave him a copy that he took in his trip ending with exile in Russia.