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Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" ("Denver Post") in his first major short story collection.
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.


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Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" ("Denver Post") in his first major short story collection.
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.

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9780441017195
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0441017193
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16.8 x 3.1 x 23.6 centimeters (0.59 kg)

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"A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide-someone like Stross."
-"Popular Science"

"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."
-"New York Times"

"Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow."
-Gardner Dozois, Editor, "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine

"Charles Stross is the most spectacular sciencefiction writer of recent years."
-Vernor Vinge, author of "Rainbows End"

"One of the most flexible and intellectually powerful authors operating in modern SF."
-"SF Diplomat"

aA new kind of future requires a new breed of guideasomeone like Stross.a
a"Popular Science"
aThe act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Strossa][He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, 60 or 600 yearsa time.a
a"New York Times"
aWhere Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.a
aGardner Dozois, Editor, "Asimovas Science Fiction" magazine
aCharles Stross is the most spectacular sciencefiction writer of recent years.a
aVernor Vinge, author of "Rainbows End"
aOne of the most flexible and intellectually powerful authors operating in modern SF.a
a"SF Diplomat"

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By on August 21, 2009
An extremely fine collection, with a 3.83 average. An interesting range of material both in length, going from vignette to long novella, and content, from humorous science fiction and fantasy to cold war paranoia and horror. Down on the Farm, being one of the Laundry stories is perhaps a combination of both. It contains a story new to this book as the final entry, a twisty Time Police (Stasis Agent) scenario, but with a cosmological element, as well, to make it a little different. The object of this agency is to keep humans alive after the inevitable extinctions. I'll still happily read anything he writes, and look forward to more. An excellent book. Wireless : Missile Gap - Charles Stross Wireless : Rogue Farm - Charles Stross Wireless : A Colder War - Charles Stross Wireless : Maxos - Charles Stross Wireless : Down on the Farm - Charles Stross Wireless : Unwirer - Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow Wireless : Snowball's Chance - Charles Stross Wireless : Trunk and Disorderly - Charles Stross Wireless : Palimpsest - Charles Stross Discworld detour detente dramatically different. 4 out of 5 Pastoral life breakdown. 3.5 out of 5 The US works on highly advanced nuclear weapons programs to stop something far worse that the Soviets have available : 'What exactly are these weapons systems?'' demands the third inquisitor, a quiet, hawk-faced man sitting on the left of the panel. The shoggot'im, they're called: servitors. There are several kinds of advanced robotic systems made out of molecular components: they can change shape, restructure material at the atomic level -- ' 3.5 out of 5 Interstellar spam. 3 out of 5 DSS = Deeply Scary Sorcerers. No chess at the Funny Farm please. 4 out of 5 Big network bypass fascist evidence breakthrough. 4.5 out of 5 Global warming Devil deal destruction wish banking. 4 out of 5 Dwarf mammoths are heavy. Supreme planetary overlords have bloody big houses. Multigendered metalflesh relations are jolly complex, old chap. 4 out of 5 Stasis self-inflicted senior self slaying separation self-Opposition. 4 out of 5 4.5 out of 5
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