Cory Doctorow 54 min read

A young colonist returns from the stars to the underwater Canadian city of his childhood, and finds he no longer quite fits the home he left behind.

Cory Doctorow's 1999 story, praised by Gaiman and Marusek, is a smart, pop-culture-saturated tale of homecoming and belonging. Sharp, inventive, contemporary SF. Read it for an early Doctorow story about the ache of coming back changed to a place that stayed the same.

In its time

Published in 1999, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).