Lobsters

Charlie Stross's Hugo-nominated story, "Lobsters," is online.

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And, like John C. Wright's The Golden Age, Stross 'Lobsters is heavily weighted down by futuristic jargon.

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And, like John C. Wright's The Golden Age, Stross 'Lobsters is heavily weighted down by futuristic jargon.

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The first story in the fix-up is "Lobsters", arguably Stross's most famous story, and it is reasonably accessible.

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Stross continued the story, too; "Lobsters" can stand alone, but it's also the first chapter of a novel called ACCELERANDO.

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Finally, we have Charles Stross's "Lobsters", which is one of those great stories that coasts along on pure style.

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I actually first discovered Stross in the pages of Asimov's when I read "Lobsters," the foundational short story for Accelerando.

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Okay, it's sorta cute to have "Lobsters" and "Crabs" on the door at Joe's Crab Shack, but which crustacean is more masculine?

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In the near-future short fiction I've read from Stross he tends to write about the people who write the software, the ones pushing the boundaries I'm thinking of Manfred Manx from "Lobsters," particularly.

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