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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 ...
May 18, 2005 · This work is the centerpiece of the author's short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
From "A Place So Foreign and Eight More," a short story collection published in September, 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows Press (ISBN 1568582862). See http://craphound.com/place for more. Originally Published in Science Fiction Age, January 2000
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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Apr 27, 2022 · 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.
Feb 1, 2000 · 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.
A Place So Foreign and 8 More is the post-cyberpunk iconoclast's much anticipated first collection, and it starts with a bang. "Craphound" is the author's signature piece. It's his most widely anthologized story, and deservedly so.
