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| Author | Cory Doctorow |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Publication date | January 2006 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 1-56025-981-7 |
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007, ISBN 1-56025-981-7) is a collection of previously published science fiction short stories and novellas by Canadian writer Cory Doctorow. This is Doctorow's second published collection, following A Place So Foreign and Eight More . Each story includes an introduction by the author.
It opens with "Printcrime", a piece of microfiction originally published in the January 2006 issue of Nature .
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 "I, Robot" comes next, originally published in The Infinite Matrix , winner of the 2005 Locus Award and nominee for the Hugo Award and British Science Fiction Award. The title was originally used by Isaac Asimov for a collection of short stories, all about robots. Doctorow wrote the story to address "one of the thin places in Asimov's world-building," citing the lack of competition in Asimov's world's robot industry. [1]
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]
