Snowball's

The aptly titled "Snowball's Chance" is Stross 'deal-with-the-devil story in which down-and-out Davy meets the Devil in a Scotland bar.

REVIEW: Wireless by Charles Stross 2009

Liz – Face it – You got 'A Snowball's Chance 'for any office.

Liz Cheney open to running for office 2009

And will Snowball's noisy cawing mar the ethereal atmosphere of La Sylphide?

The New Pecking Order at ABT: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Subterranean has two new pieces of fiction from their Summer 2007 issue posted this week: "Carnival Knowledge: a Lucifer Jones Story" by Mike Resnick and "Snowball's Chance" by Charles Stross. [via Subterranean Press]

SF Tidbits for 7/18/07 2007

And I don't imagine choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, having left the Bolshoi to become ABT's Artist in Residence, will be tickled pink at having to cut crucial sections from Rachmanioff's Prelude in C-sharp minor to make room for a couple of catchy numbers from Snowball's beloved Backstreet Boys.

The New Pecking Order at ABT: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Subterranean has two new pieces of fiction from their Summer 2007 issue posted this week: "Carnival Knowledge: a Lucifer Jones Story" by Mike Resnick and "Snowball's Chance" by Charles Stross. [via Subterranean Press]

July 2007 2007

Since it's the first day of summer, I thought I'd share one of Snowball's first pictures from this series.

Friday Catblogging Classic 2007

–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage.

Giveaway! "Wireless" by Charles Stross 2009

The magazine is intrigued, not convinced, concluding that, "Though there is no disputing Snowball's talent, that is not proof" of the thesis concerning causation.

James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Are Computer Hackers the Pentagon's Real Threat? 2009

–U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award–winner Missile Gap), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox (MAXOS) and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland (Snowball's Chance) demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror and espionage.

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