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Author | Charles Stross |
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Cover artist | Juha Lindroos |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Cosmos Books/ Wildside Press |
Publication date | 2002 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 192 pp |
ISBN | 1-58715-413-7 |
OCLC | 51620864 |
Toast: And Other Rusted Futures is an English language collection of science fiction short stories by Charles Stross, published in 2002 by Cosmos Books. [1] 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.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (April 2024) |
![]() First edition | |
Author | Charles Stross |
---|---|
Cover artist | Juha Lindroos |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Cosmos Books/ Wildside Press |
Publication date | 2002 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 192 pp |
ISBN | 1-58715-413-7 |
OCLC | 51620864 |
Toast: And Other Rusted Futures is an English language collection of science fiction short stories by Charles Stross, published in 2002 by Cosmos Books. [1] 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.