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Name: A Place So Foreign and Eight More
Author: Cory Doctorow
Year: 2000
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Short Stories

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ISBN:
9781568582863
1568582862
Winner of the Sunburst award in 2004.

Free. In the title tale, narrator James 14 returns home with Mama to 1898 village when his father Les, time-traveller Ambassador to aliens, vanishes from 1975 jet-pack city. When the "mothaship" takes the anointed few into the brave new world, those left behind are angry. "0wnz0red" asks - what happens when hackers hack the human body?
1 Craphound
2 A place so foreign
3 All day sucker
4 To market, to market
5 Return to Pleasure Island
6 Shadow of the mothaship
7 Home again, home again
8 The super man and the bugout
9 Ownz0red
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