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A review by sizrobe
A Place So Foreign and Eight More by Cory Doctorow
5.0
Classic Cory Doctorow. My favorite of the bunch is Craphound, which is about a guy who buys crap at yard sales and thrift stores to resell at auction, who just happens to have an alien colleague. I can see why he titled his personal blog after it.
Other highlights include The Super Man and the Bugout, which is about a Jewish superhero named Hershie who is obsoleted by peacekeeping aliens, and two others set in the same post-alien future.
There's a neat little biohacking story by the unfortunate name "0wnz0red" that is almost ruined by a liberal peppering of leetspeak. Almost.
Really I think the titular story, A Place So Foreign, was the weakest of the bunch. It's a time-travelling story where technology keeps bleeding backwards into the past. I'm not a huge fan of time travel stories, but it wasn't horrible.
Other highlights include The Super Man and the Bugout, which is about a Jewish superhero named Hershie who is obsoleted by peacekeeping aliens, and two others set in the same post-alien future.
There's a neat little biohacking story by the unfortunate name "0wnz0red" that is almost ruined by a liberal peppering of leetspeak. Almost.
Really I think the titular story, A Place So Foreign, was the weakest of the bunch. It's a time-travelling story where technology keeps bleeding backwards into the past. I'm not a huge fan of time travel stories, but it wasn't horrible.