Stross, Charles / Стросс, Чарльз - Собрание сочинений (74 произведения) [1987-2023, fb2/epub, ENG]

Scratch Monkey 2011, epub The Rapture of the Nerds 2012, fb2/epub (with Cory Doctorow)

Toast 2006, epub, ISBN: 0-8095-5603-0, Cosmos Books / Wildside Press Wireless 2009, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-101-08156-3, Ace Books

The Boys 1987, epub The Reavers and the Dead 1989, fb2 Generation Gap 1989, epub Monastery of Death / Монастырь Смерти 1990, epub Something Sweet 1991, fb2 (with Simon Ings) SEAQ and Destroy 1991, epub Examination Night 1992, epub The Midlist Bombers 1992, epub Tarkovsky's Cut 1993, fb2 (with Simon Ings) A Boy and His God 1997, epub Jury Service 2002, epub (with Cory Doctorow) Flowers from Alice 2003, fb2 Appeals Court 2004, epub (with Cory Doctorow) Remade 2005, fb2 Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016 2007, epub Different Flesh 2011, fb2 A Tall Tail 2012, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4668-2892-6, Tor.com

the day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd. Some of them had half melted in the heat of re-entry; others pinged and ticked, cooling rapidly in the postdawn chill. An inquisitive pigeon hopped close, head cocked to one side; it pecked at the shiny case of one such device, then fluttered away in alarm when it beeped. A tinny voice spoke: “Hello? Will you entertain us?” The Festival had come to Rochard’s World. A skinny street urchin was one of the first victims of the assault on the economic integrity of the New Republic’s youngest colony world. Rudi—nobody knew his patronymic, or indeed his father—spotted one of the phones lying in the gutter of a filthy alleyway as he went about his daily work, a malodorous sack wrapped around his skinny shoulders like a soldier’s bedroll. The telephone lay on the chipped stones, gleaming like polished gunmetal: he glanced around furtively before picking it up, in case the gentleman who must have dropped it was still nearby. When it chirped he nearly dropped it out of fear: a machine! Machines were upper-class and forbidden, guarded by the grim faces and gray uniforms of authority. Nevertheless, if he brought it home to Uncle Schmuel, there might be good eating: better than he could buy with the proceeds of the day’s sackful of dog turds for the tannery. He turned it over in his hands, wondering how to shut it up, and a tinny voice spoke: “Hello? Will you entertain us?” Rudi nearly dropped the phone and ran, but curiosity held him back for a moment: “Why?” . . .

Ten and a half hours before a mounted knight with a machine gun tried to kill her, tech journalist Miriam Beckstein lost her job. Before the day was out, her pink slip would set in train a chain of events that would topple governments, trigger civil wars, and kill thousands. It would be the biggest scoop in her career, in any journalist’s career—bigger than Watergate, bigger than 9/11—and it would be Miriam’s story. But as of seven o’clock in the morning, the story lay in her future: All she knew was that it was a rainy Monday morning in October, she had a job to do and copy to write, and there was an editorial meeting scheduled for ten.

The sky was the colour of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain. Miriam yawned and came awake to the Monday morning babble of the anchorman on her alarm radio. “—Bombing continues in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, in business news, the markets are down forty-seven points on the word that Cisco is laying off another three thousand employees,” announced the anchor. “Ever since 9/11, coming on top of the collapse of the dot-com sector, their biggest customers are hunkering down. Tom, how does it look from where you’re sitting—” “Shut up,” she mumbled and killed the volume. “I don’t want to hear this.” Most of the tech sector was taking a beating. Which in turn meant that The Industry Weatherman’s readers—venture capitalists and high-tech entrepreneurs, along with the wannabe day traders—would be taking a beating. Her own beat, the biotech firms, were solid, but the collapsing internet sector was making waves. If something didn’t happen to relieve the plummeting circulation figures soon, there would be trouble. Trouble. Monday. “I’ll give you trouble,” she muttered, face forming a grin that might have frightened some of those readers, had they been able to see it. “Trouble is my middle name.” And trouble was good news, for a senior reporter on The Industry Weatherman. . . .

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