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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Cosmos (15 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0809556030
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809556038
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 112,161 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Short story collection containing such gems as "Antibodies," "Bear Trap," "Extracts from the Club Diary," "A Colder War," "TOAST: A con report," "A Boy and His God," "Ship of Fools," "Dechlorinating the Moderator," "Yellow Snow", "Big Brother Iron", "Lobsters".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yippee! I discovered Charlie Stross., 1 Mar 2006
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I hunted this book down after finding one of the author's stories in Interzone. It's a short story called Antibodies and it blew me away. I think it still stands out in this collection as the best, but you just have to read this guy. He puts more ideas on a single page than some authors do in a whole book. It can be a pretty intense read, but if anyone has a clue about what the future has in store for us, it's Charles Stross. Buy it and read him, if you haven't already. (Warning - you need to be a bit of techie/geek to appreciate much of it)
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5.0 out of 5 stars After the Future Implodes, 9 May 2009
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A collection of Charles Stross' early short stories (some just about 10 years old) that reflects on the situation where near-term science fiction ideas can all too rapidly be overtaken by an unpredicted reality and so a writer's ideas become "Toast".

This is my fifth CS book and a great addition to the collection. While it is true that some ideas are overtaken by events all these ideas are a challenge that make you stop and think the what if question. The story Big Brother Iron with its 1984esqu reality of computerised surveillance is probably uncomfortably nearer now, than when Charles wrote the story.

The story Lobsters will be familiar to those who've read Accelerando as it is its first Chapter. Don't let this overlap of content detract you. Toast is well worth the purchase if you have Accelerando, and if you don't have either, buy both anyway as Accelerando is an exceptional novel.
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