“The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross…[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years’ time.” – The New York Times
“A NEW WORK OF CREDIBLE AND BOLD SF.” – Science Fiction Weekly
“A world in which new ideas drip from every page.” – Revolution Science Fiction
“Stross’s latest and best (so far) novel…A twisty, engrossing, and very well-done paranoia thriller.” – SF Site
“Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.”—Gardner Dozois, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
“A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide—someone like Stross.”—Popular Science