The story "A Place So Foreign" follows the journey of a young boy and his father, who is the Ambassador to 1975, as they travel through time from the 19th century. However, when the father is injured, the boy is left stranded in 1898 and becomes an out-of-place anomaly. Author Doctrow incorporates the concept of time-travel into a cautionary tale...More
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. 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. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999.
His ‘Down and Out...’ was nominated for a Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2004. ‘0wnz0red’ was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. 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. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999.
His ‘Down and Out...’ was nominated for a Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2004. ‘0wnz0red’ was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Book Summary
The story "A Place So Foreign" follows the journey of a young boy and his father, who is the Ambassador to 1975, as they travel through time from the 19th century. However, when the father is injured, the boy is left stranded in 1898 and becomes an out-of-place anomaly. Author Doctrow incorporates the concept of time-travel into a cautionary tale about data mining, as unknown entities exploit historical data for their own commercial interests.
Cory Doctorow
