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Return to Pleasure Island, by Cory Doctorow
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Title: Return to Pleasure Island
Author: Cory Doctorow
Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17027]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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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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* 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 glas