Scroogled
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Tags: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Short Stories
What if Google started working with the Department of Homeland Security?
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Copyright 2007 by Cory Doctorow.
Originally published in Radar magazine.
This work, Scroogled, by Cory Doctorow, is distributed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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About the Author
Born in 1971 to a Canadian family whose values included political activism, Cory Doctorow devoted much of his youth to activist and social justice causes. After leaving college without a degree, he went on to serve pivotal roles in the field of copyright in the electronic and internet age. In 2003, he published his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which was greeted with much success from the science fiction community. A sought-after lecturer, Doctorow recently held the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He has since published other works, among them a short-story collection entitled A Place So Foreign and Eight More, and a novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
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Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he'd made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. He'd emerged from first class, brown as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three days a week, seducing ...
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Copyright 2007 by Cory Doctorow.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
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3/5
Reviewed by Undiagnosed on Dec 7, 2011
Scroogled again?
Beyond disturbing. Gets you wondering which way is up. Orwellian doublespeak. Who are your friends, and who are your enemies? Is anything real anymore?
5/5 
Reviewed by jazzyman103 on Jun 30, 2009
SCROOGLED ( Great title)
I liked it, but not as much as I liked "LITTLLE BROTHER."
2/5 
Reviewed by gezospan on Aug 4, 2008
Medioker at best
Lets bring out the 'ol: 'Google is evil' theme and write a little story around that... Nah, just does not do it for me.
3/5
Reviewed by Kasey1024 on Jan 21, 2009
Amusing
Especially fun if you work at Google (or know someone who does) but have not drunk the koolaid, so to speak.
4/5 
Reviewed by BillSeitz on Jun 25, 2008
Funny but scary
And all too believable.
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Ratings for 'Scroogled' by Doctorow, Cory
| ahgilmour | | 2008-12-19 | |
| benaud | | 2009-08-06 | |
| benjiw | | 2010-05-04 | |
| BillSeitz | | Read review | 2008-06-25 |
| boookywooky | | 2011-06-30 | |
| carlbruce1979 | | 2009-12-15 | |
| dave_fisk | | 2008-07-21 | |
| EmmaLouise | | 2009-07-08 | |
| fusion8 | | 2009-02-08 | |
| Gambitus | | 2009-06-19 | |
| gezospan | | Read review | 2008-08-04 |
| jazzyman103 | | Read review | 2009-06-30 |
| Kasey1024 | | Read review | 2009-01-21 |
| kittnpie | | 2011-09-27 | |
| Marjaana |  | 2009-04-14 | |
| rejinl | | 2009-06-15 | |
| rodmitch | | 2008-12-19 | |
| Undiagnosed | | Read review | 2011-12-07 |
| wmsmurray | | 2009-06-11 |
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