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"Pretty Boy Crossover"
by Pat Cadigan

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Publishing Data

First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1986
Collected in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, ed. Arthur B. Evans et al.

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Pretty Boy, 16, contemplates uploading his personality into a computer program.
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What sort of world is portrayed in this story?
What is a Pretty Boy? What other youth subcultures appear in this story?
Characterize the narrator. Why does he stutter?
Who wants Pretty Boy? Why?
What is the appeal of what Pretty Boy is being offered? Why doesn't Pretty Boy want what is being offered to him?
Who is Bobby? What was his relationship to Pretty Boy? What happened to him?
Why does Pretty Boy get angry when he sees Bobby?
How is the setting important to the story?
In what way is Pretty Boy subversive?
 
 
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