The Adventures of Ma 'n' Pa Frigidaire

Overview:

• Title: The Adventures of Ma 'n' Pa Frigidaire
• Author: Cory Doctorow
• Year: 1993
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

This is the story that sparked a genre that never got a chance to live... My Clarion classmate Dale Bailey calls this "Crackerpunk," and it's a funny, meandering, silly Twain-pastiche set in a far-future, subterranian Company town. It remains one of my favorite pieces, tho' no one's seen fit to publish it to date.

Awards:

• 1994. The Adventures of Ma 'n' Pa Frigidaire Asimov's Undergraduate, Undergraduate Excellence in SF & Fantasy Writing (Nomination below cutoff)

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