Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as
Accelerando, Halting State, and
Saturn's Children delivers a selection of speculative fiction brought together in one collection, showdcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
About the Author
"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