Toast Author:Charles Stross Award-winning author Charles Stross is one of today's most exciting and entertaining writers. This collection, Toast, brings together some of his best short stories originally published between 1989 and 2001, including his Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award nominated work "Lobsters", the first of his m... more »any near-future cyberpunk Accelerando stories.
Bruce Sterling on speed? The imagination of Sterling squared? All of the glitz, glibly tossed-off newly invented, or hybrid tech-terms thrown at the reader like an info blizzard at hurricane force, but with more core storyline than in some of Sterling's "Deep Eddy" stories.
Contents:
Introduction: After the Future Imploded (2002) • essay by Charles Stross
Antibodies (2000) / short story by Charles Stross
Bear Trap (2000) / novelette by Charles Stross
Extracts from the Club Diary (1998) / short story by Charles Stross
A Colder War (2000) / novelette by Charles Stross
TOAST: A Con Report (1998) / short story by Charles Stross
A Boy and His God (1997) / short story by Charles Stross
Ship of Fools (1995) / short story by Charles Stross
Dechlorinating the Moderator (1996) / short story by Charles Stross
Yellow Snow (1990) / short story by Charles Stross
Big Brother Iron (2002) / novelette by Charles Stross
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