"Patches"
| Title | "Patches" |
| Year for Search | 1996 |
| Authors | Choyce, Lesley [Willis](b. 1951) |
| Secondary Title | Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction |
| Pagination | 116-28 |
| Date Published | 1996 |
| Publisher | Quarry Press |
| Place Published | Kingston, ON, Canada |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Male author, US 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1951) was born, raised, and educated in the U.S. and lives in Nova Scotia. |
| 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. |
