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    Craphound
    Craphound
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    Craphound

    By Cory Doctorow

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual; Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, non-fiction about monopoly and creative labour markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

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      Craphound - Cory Doctorow

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Craphound, by Cory Doctorow

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. **

      Title: Craphound

      Author: Cory Doctorow

      Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17026]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRAPHOUND ***

      Copyright (C) 1998 by Cory Doctorow

      Craphound

      Cory Doctorow

      From A Place So Foreign and Eight More, a short story collection published in September, 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows Press (ISBN 1568582862). See http://craphound.com/place for more.

      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

      —

      Blurbs and quotes:

      * Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured glasses. Enjoy.

       - Neil Gaiman

         Author of American Gods and Sandman

      * Few writers boggle my sense of reality as much as Cory Doctorow. His vision

        is so far out there, you'll need your GPS to find your way back.

       - David Marusek

         Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Award, Nebula Award nominee

      * Cory Doctorow is one of our best new writers: smart, daring, savvy,

        entertaining, ambitious, plugged-in, and as good a guide to the wired world of

        the twenty-first century that stretches out before us as you're going to find.

       - Gardner Dozois

         Editor, Asimov's SF

      * He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science

        fiction needs Cory Doctorow!

       - Bruce Sterling

         Author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction

      * Cory Doctorow strafes the senses with a geekspeedfreak explosion of gomi kings

        with heart, weirdass shapeshifters from Pleasure Island and jumping automotive

        jazz joints. If this is Canadian science fiction, give me more.

       - Nalo Hopkinson

         Author of Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring

      * Cory Doctorow is the future of science fiction. An nth-generation hybrid of the best of Greg Bear, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling and Groucho Marx, Doctorow composes stories that are as BPM-stuffed as techno music, as idea-rich as the latest issue of NEW SCIENTIST, and as funny as humanity's efforts to improve itself. Utopian, insightful, somehow simultaneously ironic and heartfelt, these nine tales will upgrade your basal metabolism, overwrite your cortex with new and efficient subroutines and generally improve your life to the point where you'll wonder how you ever got along with them. Really, you should need a prescription to ingest this book. Out of all the glittering crap life and our society hands us, craphound supreme Doctorow has managed to fashion some industrial-grade art."

       - Paul Di Filippo

         Author of The Steampunk Trilogy

      * As scary as the future, and twice as funny. In this eclectic and electric

        collection Doctorow strikes sparks off today to illuminate tomorrow, which is

        what SF is supposed to

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