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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

by Cory Doctorow

107 Installments— in English—Entirely free

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Members' Rating: 3.89from 9 Ratings and 2 Reviews

Tags: Science Fiction, Short Stories

ISBN:1560259817

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6 short stories: "After the Siege", "Anda's Game", "I, Robot", "I, Row-boat", "Printcrime", "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth".


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About the Author

Born in 1971 to a Canadian family whose values included political activism, Cory Doctorow devoted much of his youth to activist and social justice causes. After leaving college without a degree, he went on to serve pivotal roles in the field of copyright in the electronic and internet age. In 2003, he published his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was greeted with much success from the science fiction community. A sought-after lecturer, Doctorow recently held the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He has since published other works, among them a short-story collection entitled A Place So Foreign and Eight More, and a novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

The coppers smashed my father's printer when I was eight. I remember the hot, cling-film-in-a-microwave smell of it, and Da's look of ferocious concentration as he filled it with fresh goop, and the warm, fresh-baked feel of the objects that came out of it.
The coppers came through the door with ...

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Copyright

Copyright 2007 by Cory Doctorow

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5

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4/5 4.00

Reviewed by changolote on Apr 2, 2009

Pretty good

Six short stories, I had never heard of Doctorow but this was pretty cool. Two stories were dull/pointless--I, Rowboat and Printjob (or whatever the first one was called). The other 4 were all great stories and in fact reflected a great variety. Anda's Game I thought was very creative; I,Robot moved at a great pace; the one about the seige started kind of slowed, but the last 20 installments--I just kept clicking "send next installment immediately." Would like to have had the book copy for my recent trip.

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3/5 3.00

Reviewed by smeg on Feb 10, 2009

Some good, some not so

Enjoyed most of the stories, with the exception of i,rowboat. Very much enjoyed After the Seige

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Khyarete 4.00   2008-09-05
MylesC 4.00   2009-03-26
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