Toast: And Other Rusted Futures

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 many 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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Genres science fictionshort storiesfictionanthologiescyberpunkhorrorcollectionsspeculative fictionscience fiction fantasydystopia

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2002

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: February 18, 2002 by Cosmos Books
ISBN: 9781587154133
ASIN: 1587154137
Language: English

About the author

charles stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams and Richard Morgan.

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