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Stross, Charles

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9780441017195: Wireless
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0441017193 ISBN 13: 9780441017195
Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 2009

Synopsis

From Charles Stross, the Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn's Children, comes a selection of speculative fiction, brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
Stross's fiction runs the gamut - from "Palimpsest," a decidedly nontraditional time-travel novella original to this volume, to "Down on the Farm," an adventure of hapless secret agent Bob Howard star of the Laundry novels, The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue, here in print for the first time. Also included are "MAXOS," a stunning example of the new flash-fiction form; his Locus Award-winning novella, "Missile Gap"; and "Unwirer," a colaboration with Cory Doctorow seen here for the first time in its unabridged version. Rounding out the contents are "A Colder War," "Rogue Farm," "Trunk and Disorderly," and "Snowball's Chance," four unique genre-bending tales that could only come from the mind of Charles Stross.

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About 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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Prolific novelist Stross pauses to collect short stories that have not (yet) been stitched up into his longer work. Stories that move the U.S.–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage. He also pays homage to his literary forebears, combining Lovecraft and the Iran-Contra scandal (The Colder War) and bringing in Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould as characters. Though individual pieces are well-done and deservedly popular, the collection has an overall sense of early drafts and reworkings of other pieces, as with Trunk and Disorderly, a P.G. Wodehouse–on–Mars test run for 2008's Saturn's Children. (July)
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Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0441017193
ISBN 13 
9780441017195
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
368
Rating
  • 3.90 out of 5 stars
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