''A Place So Foreign and Eight More'' is a collection of short stories by Canadian-British writer

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of th ...

. Six of these stories were released electronically under a

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license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher

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in 2003 with . The collection features an introduction by

Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first ...

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

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for Best Novelette.

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

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* Six of the nine stories from this book ar
available
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