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Stross, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441017193 ISBN 13: 9780441017195

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 2009

Synopsis

A major collection by the Hugo Award-winning author of Accelerando and Saturn's Children includes an original novella and a selection of speculative-fiction tales that reflects his visions about the origins of life and the state of the universe in the near and distant future.

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0441017193
• ISBN 13: 9780441017195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368