Woohoo! I've just gotten the cover-proofs for my upcoming short-fiction collection, "A Place So Foreign and Eight More," which Four Walls Eight Windows will publish in the fall. Sweet. Here're a few of the cover-blurbs I've gotten so far:
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
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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
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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 do. And nobody does it better.
Terry Bisson
