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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.
Feb 1, 2000 · His pal Oly Sweynsdatter is left behind future's advanced formal education. Teacher Robert Adelson inspires him with his sailing past, how his home seemed "a place so foreign" when he returned.
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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.
The centerpiece, "A Place so Foreign," is an intriguing historical riff on time travel. Cory's Disneyfied California environs crop up in the creepy "Return to Pleasure Island," and another wildly futuristic, yet timeless environment sets the stage for three stories: "Shadow of the Mothaship," "Home Again, Home Again," and "The Superman and the ...
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The nine short science fiction stories comprising Cory Doctorow's Place So Foreign And 8 More aren't your ordinary everyday tales: it was on the strength of this collection that Doctorow was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer, challenging the boundaries of science fiction and detailing worlds which are new ...
A Place So Foreign and 8 More. Start a New Discussion (Visitors Welcome) Updated September 7, 2010. Category: Science Fiction, Short stories. Release date: 2003. Cory Doctorow (born 1971) is a Canadian author. Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
A Place So Foreign brings together several stories in a classic-contemporary sci-fi shorts kind of collection. The stories feel utterly contemporary in their blending of tech and reality, drawing as much from fantasy and fairy tales as from Bradbury and Asimov.
