A Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...

. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...

 license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows

Four Walls Eight Windows

Four Walls Eight Windows was an independent book publisher in New York City. Its debut occurred in the fall of 1987, under the direction of two young editors, John G. H. Oakes and Daniel Simon. In 1995, Oakes and Simon parted ways...

 in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2. The collection features an introduction by Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...

, and includes "0wnz0red", which was nominated for the 2003 Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

 for Best Novelette

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.-External links:* * *...

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Contents

• The Kingdom of Magic Junk, by Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
• Craphound
• A Place So Foreign
• All Day Sucker
• To Market, To Market: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey
• Return to Pleasure Island
• Shadow of the Mothaship
• Home Again, Home Again
• The Super Man and the Bugout
• 0wnz0red (hosted on Salon.com)

External links

• This book is available free under an open source license on the author's web page and blog.
• "Craphound" A free HTML version of the story
• "0wnz0red" A free HTML version of the story
• Craphound at BestScienceFictionStories.com - A review of the short story.