"Patches"

Year for Search
1996
Secondary Title
Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction
Author
Annotation

Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice.

Pagination
116-28
Published Date

1996

Publisher
Quarry Press
Place Published
Kingston, ON, Canada
Keywords
Full Text

1996 Choyce, Leslie [Willis] (b. 1951). “Patches.” In his Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction (Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1996), 116-28. PSt

Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice. The author was born, raised, and educated in the U.S. and lives in Nova Scotia.

Author Note

The author (b. 1951) was born, raised, and educated in the U.S. and lives in Nova Scotia.

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