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for
A Place So Foreign and 8 More
:
“As a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-
around Renaissance geek, Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer who can really drill
down…. We should all hope and trust that our culture has the guts and moxie to follow
this guy. He’s got a lot to tell us.”
Bruce sterliNG, author of
Schismatrix
aNd
The Difference Engine
(with william
GiBsoN)
“Cory Doctorow straps on his miner’s helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and under-
ground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through sf-coloured glasses.”
Neil GaimaN, author of
American Gods
aNd
The Sandman
“
A Place So Foreign and 8 More
is the post-cyberpunk iconoclast’s much anticipated first
collection, and it starts with a bang.”
Montreal Gazette
“[It’s] a bracing collection of short stories by a Canadian writer whose influences range from
Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker to Donald Barthelme and Roald Dahl.
As knowledgeable about computers as he is about flea markets, Doctorow uses science
fiction as a kind of cultural WD-40, loosening hinges and dissolving adhesions to peer into
some of society’s unlighted corners. His best known story, ‘Craphound,’ tells of a competi-
tive friendship between two junk collectors, one human and one alien; what it says about
the uses of the past is no more mysterious than the prices paid for a vintage Coke bottle or
an early Barbie doll. Not every attempt to wrest truth from cliché works — but you won’t
want to miss Doctorow’s satiric glance at co-opted dissent among the grade-school set or the
insidious horror of his updated Pinocchio tale.”
New York Times
“Achingly funny...by relentlessly exposing disenchanted Silicon Valley dwellers caught in a
military-industrial web of khaki money, Congress-critters and babykiller projects, Doctorow
explores the intersection of social concern and technology.”
Publishers Weekly
“Time travel made fresh. Pinocchio made haunting. Even the tangential ideas, incidental
word choices and minor sub-stories crackle with creativity. If your nerd quotient is high
enough, the last story will blow you away.”
Jeff Bezos, fouNder, amazoN.com
for
Eastern Standard Tribe
:
“Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar — a hard combination to beat (or, these days,
to find).”
william GiBsoN, author,
Neuromancer
aNd
Spook Country
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