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Title: Return to Pleasure Island

Author: Cory Doctorow

Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17027]

Language: English

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Copyright (C) 1999 by Cory Doctorow

Return to Pleasure Island

Cory Doctorow

From "A Place So Foreign and Eight More," a short story collection published in
September, 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows Press (ISBN 1568582862). See
http://craphound.com/place for more.

Originally Published in Realms of Fantasy August 1999

"By design or default, something about this story (and I can't describe exactly
what because I don't know) disturbed me a great deal, though it's a well-written
and unique take on an old tale. Others may find it more palatable. If Doctorow's
intent was to unsettle, he succeeded..."

- J. G. Stinson,
Tangent Online
http://www.tangentonline.com/reviews/magazine.php3?review=153

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Blurbs and quotes:

* Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the
caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured
glasses. Enjoy.

- Neil Gaiman
Author of American Gods and Sandman

* Few writers boggle my sense of reality as much as Cory Doctorow. His vision
is so far out there, you'll need your GPS to find your way back.

- David Marusek
Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Award, Nebula Award nominee

* Cory Doctorow is one of our best new writers: smart, daring, savvy,
entertaining, ambitious, plugged-in, and as good a guide to the wired world of
the twenty-first century that stretches out before us as you're going to find.

- Gardner Dozois
Editor, Asimov's SF

* He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science
fiction needs Cory Doctorow!

- Bruce Sterling
Author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction

* Cory Doctorow strafes the senses with a geekspeedfreak explosio