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A Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Canadian-British writer Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2. The collection features an introduction ...
In "Craphound," the author posits an Earth taken over by "bugouts," aliens obsessed with trading technological expertise for human junk, the ephemera that momentarily defines a society and then becomes silly or naive when some new and more soul-destroying technological amusement arrives.
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Feb 1, 2000 · A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling (Introduction) 3.72. 892 ratings50 reviews. Free. In the title tale, narrator James 14 returns home with Mama to 1898 village when his father Les, time-traveller Ambassador to aliens, vanishes from 1975 jet-pack city.
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Apr 27, 2022 · 243 p. ; 21 cm. Introd. by Bruce Sterling. Craphound -- A place so foreign -- All day sucker -- To market, to market : the rebranding of Billy Bailey -- Return to Pleasure Island -- Shadow of the mothaship -- Home again, home again -- The super man and the bugout -- Ownz0red. Access-restricted-item.
Sep 8, 2003 · In the collection's titular tale, "A Place So Foreign," a 19th-century boy travels with his father, the Ambassador to 1975. But when Pa meets with an accident, young James becomes a living anachronism in 1898.
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A Place So Foreign and 8 More by Cory Doctorow. by Cory Doctorow. N/A. Considered one of the most promising science fiction writers, Cory Doctorow's name is already mentioned with such SF greats as J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE. Cory Doctorow, . . Four Walls Eight Windows, $13.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-286-3. Postcyberpunk Doctorow, a rising Canadian SF star, follows his...
