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'''''Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow''''', is a book of short stories by [[Brian Fawcett]]. It was first published in 1988 (with subsequent US publication: ISBN 0-8021-1082-7).

In addition to its unusual title, this collection of thirteen short stories and essays is notable also for having a division three quarters of the way down the page, above which appear the stories, below which appears an essay about [[Cambodia]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]]. Many of the stories and essays deal with the turbulence caused by [[modernization]], [[colonialism]], and [[multiculturalism]]. In his essays, Fawcett makes frequent references both to the short [[Joseph Conrad]] storynovel "''[[Heart of Darkness]]"'', and to the movie ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. One of Fawcett's theses is that the societal desire to turn back the hands of time and expunge the traces of modernization is a root cause of [[genocide]].

The book was the basis of a play by the same name and a multi-media performance project staged in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]].