false 29593 1 Wunderkind Cory Doctrow continues to display his orientation skills at the intersection of Humanity and Technology with the collection of short stories <I>A Place So Foreign and 8 More</I>. 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 posing the question: What happens when hackers learn to hack the human body? <p> 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. <I>--Jeremy Pugh</I> 30033 book 7 9 2003 A Place So Foreign and Eight More total:176|5:21|4:99|3:44|2:11|1:1| 176 656 270 14 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 07:11:05 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 10:26:35 -0800 2009 A Place So Foreign: 4 stars. Unique and non-obvious.
All Day Sucker: System Hang as a feature.
To Market, To Marke: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey: Caricature of our future.
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As a librarian, I'm very excited that Mr. Doctorow has made this book available through the Creative Commons license. One of the arguments a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 03 18:28:37 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:52:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 11:19:09 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 11:19:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 08:31:51 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 08:32:18 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 14:49:31 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 17:06:18 -0700 2007 it. Wow.) I think I read for characte...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 14 10:11:04 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 10:11:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 14 12:16:50 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 15:12:26 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 15:14:29 -0700 2007
They are "light" sci-fi, in my opinion, and easy to take for pretty much anyone who enjoys fantasy and/or space and time travel. Doctorow has a bit of a thing about Disneyland and garage sales, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 07 08:11:06 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 08:13:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:05:23 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:05:23 -0800 2008 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom universe but none of the other stories really stood out.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 08:24:30 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 00:15:51 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Apr 24 15:34:14 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 15:34:14 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Apr 25 17:35:21 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 17:36:46 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Apr 05 00:32:29 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 00:32:29 -0700 2008 http://craphound.com/place/]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 17:04:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:04:00 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 27 16:13:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:13:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:19:29 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:19:51 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 21 10:53:07 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 10:53:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 20:43:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 20:43:59 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 10:12:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 10:12:41 -0700 2009