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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 · 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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Jan 6, 2000 · Science-Fiction Age. This story appears in my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More and is licensed for downloading under a Creative Commons license. Download it here. When I sold this, it was the longest story I’ve ever sold, at 18,000 words. By a very happy coincidence, I sold it to the highest-paying market in the business.
May 18, 2005 · This work is the centerpiece of the author's short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
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.
Jan 1, 2001 · Read 2 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. This story is from my collection, "A Place So Foreign and Eight More," published by Four Wal….
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.
