Collection of imaginative shorts from award-winning author Charles Stross. Pre-order – out July 7, 2009
What it’s about – from the cover
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn’s Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction— including a novella original to this volume— brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century’s most daring visionaries.
What people think
Popular Science – A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide—someone like Stross.
New York Times – The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross…[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, 60 or 600 years’ time.
Gardner Dozois, Editor, Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine – Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.
SF Diplomat – One of the most flexible and intellectually powerful authors operating in modern SF.
The author
Charles Stross is a full-time writer who was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He studied in London and Bradford, gaining degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs, including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer, and freelance journalist.
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