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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2002

Country
  
United Kingdom

3.8/5
AbeBooks

Cover artist
  
Juha Lindroos

Publication date
  
2002

Pages
  
192 pp

Author
  
Charles Stross

OCLC
  
51620864

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Publisher
  
Cosmos Books/Wildside Press

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Nominations
  
Locus Award for Best Collection

Similar
  
Charles Stross books, Other books

Toast: And Other Rusted Futures is an English language collection of science fiction short stories by Charles Stross, published in 2002 by Cosmos Books. Almost all of the stories in the collection were originally published between 1990 and 2000, in the SF magazines Interzone, Spectrum SF, and Odyssey.

The subtitle of the collection, as explained by Stross in his introduction, refers to the way that predictions of the future in SF stories become rapidly obsolete by the progress of actual events. For example, the 1995 story "Ship of Fools" was a prediction of disaster due to the Y2K problem, that did not come to pass.

Contents

  • Introduction: After the future imploded
  • "Antibodies" (originally published in Interzone #157, July 2000)
  • "Bear Trap" (Spectrum SF #1, January 2000)
  • "A Colder War" (Spectrum SF #3, August 2000; available online at Infinity Plus)
  • "Toast: A Con Report" (Interzone #134, August 1998)
  • "Extracts from the Club Diary" (Odyssey #3, 1998) [1]
  • "A Boy and His God" (Odyssey #1, 1997) [2]
  • "Ship of Fools" (Interzone #98, August 1995) [3]
  • "Dechlorinating the Moderator" (Interzone #105, March 1996) [4]
  • "Yellow Snow" (Interzone #37, July 1990) [5]
  • "Big Brother Iron".
  • References

    Toast: And Other Rusted Futures Wikipedia