Toast: And Other Rusted Futures
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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.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
short stories by Charles Stross
Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...
, 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
Interzone (magazine)
Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...
, 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 WarA Colder War"A Colder War" is an English-language, alternate history novelette by Charles Stross written circa 1997.The story fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos by exploring the consequences of a follow-up to the expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness...
" (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) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/coffee.html
- "A Boy and His God" (Odyssey #1, 1997) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/boy3.html
- "Ship of Fools" (Interzone #98, August 1995) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/fools.html
- "Dechlorinating the Moderator" (Interzone #105, March 1996) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/moderator.html
- "Yellow Snow" (Interzone #37, July 1990) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/yellowsnow.html
- "Big Brother Iron".