Argosy Magazine (with Charlie Stross)
The Infinite Matrix, January 2006
Charlie and I wrote this sequel to our novella Jury Service as a kind of bookend, and published the two together as a fixup we called The Rapture of the Nerds, a title we nicked off of Ken McLeod.
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New Voices in Science Fiction (with Charlie Stross)
Resnick emailed me just as I was finishing up Jury Service with Charlie Stross and asked me if I’d be interested in writing something for New Voices in Science Fiction, an anthology he was putting together for SFWA to feature up and coming new genre writers. I wanted to work with Stross again, so I pitched him on a collaboration, and he took it.
This was originally titled “Flowers from Algernon” (which is a lot snappier, but didn’t make a lot of sense in the context of the story). I wrote my bits during a period of intensive travel, mostly squatting in airport departure lounges and hotel lobbies.
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (Jeff Vandermeer and Mark Roberts, eds.)
My old Clarion classmate Jeff Vendermeer asked me to write something for his anthology of fictional, fantastical diseases and I came up with this — a twenty-first century illness that speaks to our ability to inaccurately sense our environment.
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Originally published in On Spec, Fall 2001
“It is certainly worth noting that the story in this issue which flagrantly violates the length limit, Cory Doctorow’s ‘The Super Man and the Bugout,’ at close to 10,000 words, is also by far the best story… The story is both very funny, and a portrayal of a quite believable non-human human being.”
– Rich Horton,
Tangent Online
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Originally Published in Tesseracts 8 (Tesseract Press, 1999)
“‘Home Again, Home Again,’ is at once intimate and spectacular.”
– Farren Miller
Locus Magazine
Issue 512, Vol 51, No 3
Sept 2003
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Originally Published in Amazing Stories, Winter 2000
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Originally Published in Realms of Fantasy August 1999
“By design or default, something about this story (and I can’t describe exactly what because I don’t know) disturbed me a great deal, though it’s a well-written and unique take on an old tale. Others may find it more palatable. If Doctorow’s intent was to unsettle, he succeeded…”
– J. G. Stinson,
Tangent Online
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Originally Published in Science Fiction Age, January 2000
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Originally Published in Science Fiction Age, March 1998
Reprinted in:
* Northern Suns
(Tor, 1999, David Hartwell and Glenn Grant, editors)* Year’s Best Science Fiction XVI
(Morrow, 1999, Gardner Dozois, editor)* Hayakawa Science Fiction Magazine (Japan)
September 2001“Like most aliens-mingling-with-human-society stories, Doctorow’s story serves mostly to hold a mirror up to human nature, but the odd corner of human nature it examines is fascinating, and the story is smoothly and expertly written, with some good detail and local color and some shrewd insights into human nature and human culture, and an almost Bradburian vein of rich nostalgia running through it (although the nostalgia is quirky enough that perhaps it might more usefully be compared to R.A. Lafferty or Terry Bisson than to Bradbury).”
– Gardner Dozois
Editor, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
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Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
The Infinite Matrix, July 2008
Podcast:
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three
Year’s Best Science Fiction 9 (edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer)
Solaris Magazine (French Translation by Elisabeth Vonarburg), 2004
Sci Fi World (Chinese translation), September 2004
ESLI Magazine (Russian translation), 2005
Bli-Panika (Hebrew translation), 2005
Italian Translation, 2006, by Giovanni Ella
This one literally came to me in a dream: I woke up one morning, shortly after moving to San Francisco, with this whole story in my head. I wrote it over the next two weeks, and, what, three years later?, Asimov’s finally published it!
This story has also been translated into French by Elisabeth Vonarburg, for the Quebecois magazine Solaris in 2004. You can download it from here under a Creative Commons license.
In 2005, the Russian SF magazine ESLI reprinted this magazine in Russian translation. Download it here under a Creative Commons license.
Here’s a 1.7MB Tarball of this story in Chinese, with illustrations, taken from the September 2004 ish of Sci Fi World magazine. It’s offered under a liberal Creative Commons license — enjoy!
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