Toast"Bruce Sterling on speed? The imagination of Sterling squared? All of the glitz, glibly tossed-off newly invented, or hybrid tech-terms thrown at the reader like an info blizzard at hurricane force, but with more core storyline than in some of Sterling's "Deep Eddy" stories? ... if you like Sterling, you're gonna love Stross. In an ironic sense, Bruce Sterling was the buffer we needed to be able to handle Charles Stross." - Tangent. |
Contents
After the future imploded | 9 |
Antibodies | 21 |
Bear Trap | 45 |
Extracts from the Club Diary | 69 |
A Colder | 89 |
A con report | 127 |
A Boy and His | 145 |
Ship of Fools | 163 |
Dechlorinating the Moderator | 183 |
Yellow Snow | 191 |
Big Brother Iron | 207 |
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