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| Place So Foreign and Eight More Stories, A | 
 enlarge | Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 390612
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1568582862
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781568582863
ASIN: 1568582862
Publication Date: August 18, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Cory Doctrow continues to display his orientation skills at the intersection of humanity and technology with the collection of short stories A Place So Foreign and 8 More. 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. Doctrow twists the time-travel tale into a parable of data mining, as mysterious forces work to plunder the past for corporate gain. In one of several stories about a mysterious alien race who offers to give Earthers a hand up, he documents the adolescent rage of those left behind when the "mothaship" takes the anointed few into the brave new world. Finally, in "0wnz0red", Doctrow explores the dark side of Silicon Valley's connection to the military industrial complex by asking what happens when hackers learn to hack the human body. Doctrow is a new breed in an increasingly literate and valid subgenre of science fiction. He uses the traditional allegories of the form to explore more human and fragile connections. As the 21st century rockets ahead, he examines the consequences of our frenzy to embrace technology and predicts outcomes that are both charmingly optimistic and bleakly hollow. --Jeremy Pugh, Amazon.com
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| Customer Reviews:
Good tales from a developing author. May 6, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the second book I have read by this author.
An collection of short SciFi stories, all are interesting and show the authors development. His introductins to each story really help you enjoy them.0nz0red is the last and probably my favourite story. But all of them are terrfic reads. The book barely left my hands from start to finish! Although very good, it pales slightly in comparision to the authors first full novel "Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom". This again shows the development of an up and coming author. All in all a great collection of modern SciFi tales by an original and entertaining author. Worth every penny of the purchase price!
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