Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007,
Stories
It opens with "Printcrime", a piece of
The next story, "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" was originally published in Jim Baen's Universe, an online magazine, and was also serially released on Doctorow's own podcast, as it was written. Doctorow says this process "kept me honest and writing".[1]
"Anda's Game", the third piece was selected by Michael Chabon for The Best American Short Stories 2005 after being published on Salon. Doctorow chose the name to sound like Ender's Game, another science fiction story by Orson Scott Card.
Following in the vein of naming stories after well-known works, Doctorow's "
The similarly titled "I, Row-Boat" was originally published in the webzine, Flurb.
The final story, "After the Siege" was first published in Esli, a Russian language science fiction magazine. The first English publication was in The Infinite Matrix. The story was influenced by Doctorow's grandmother's experience in the Siege of Leningrad.[2]
References
- ^ a b Doctorow, Cory. Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. (Direct quotes from 6,101)
- ^ Doctorow, Cory. "Cory Doctorow's Craphound.com". http://www.craphound.com/?p=1674 (retrieved 5/13/2007)
- Murphy, Graham J (2011). ""Predicting the Present": Overclocking Doctorow's Overclocked". Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains. ISBN 978-0-7864-4565-3.
- Leonard, Philip (2012). "Open Networks, Distributed Identities: Cory Doctorow and the Literature of Free Culture". Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialog. 2012 (15). Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- Kumar, Sunil; Singh, Ravinder (January 2023). "The Posthuman Turn in Cory Doctorow's shortstory "I,Robot"". Literary Voice. 1 (1): 16–27. . Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- Murphy, Graham J (2011). ""Predicting the Present": Overclocking Doctorow's Overclocked". Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains.