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Toast: And Other Rusted Futures (Paperback)

by Charles Stross (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Cosmos Books,US (18 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1587154137
  • ISBN-13: 978-1587154133
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,222,335 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," and "Big Brother Iron." "I hadn't been paying close attention to Stross's work. It's a mistake I won't make again." -- Michael Swanwick

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This is Charlie Stross's first short story collection, covering short SF stories he wrote in the period 1989-2000.
It includes "Antibodies" (shortlisted for the 2001 Sturgeon Award), "A Colder War" (collected in Dozois' Years Best SF anthology), and a hitherto unpublished novella, "Big Brother Iron".

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2.0 out of 5 stars Poor collection from a writer who can do a lot better, 8 Feb 2004
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This is a disappointing collection that could have waited a while longer to include some of Stross's better fiction. Instead, we're left with three great pieces ("A Colder War", "Antibodies", "Extracts from the Club Diary") adrift in an ocean of mediocre prose and stories that range from the average ("Yellow Snow", "A Boy and His God" -- funny story, this, but not much else) to the atrocious ("Big Brother Iron").

I still believe that Stross has potential, as evidenced by the better stories. Unfortunately, the rest of the collection fails to meet the same standards, not to mention that it's under-edited and poorly produced (quite a few typesetting errors, and too much text crammed into a single page to save on the page count).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent debut collection, 30 April 2002
The last ten years have see first-rate debut collections from Greg Egan, Ian R. Macleod and Andy Duncan, and Charles Stross's first collage of short fiction - ten stories in all - is certainly in the league of the aforementioned. 'Big Brother Iron' and 'A Colder War' are brilliant homages to Orwell and Lovecraft respectively. Other selections show why some people are likening Charles Stross to Bruce Sterling on methedrine. Highly recommended.
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