After reading the last collection, A Place so Foreign…, my brain hurt. Why? Great ideas but (sort of like Charles Stross) I felt like an overrun buffer. I loved his last novel but this collection is certainly Cory at his best. The opening story, Print Crimes, must be read by everybody – yes, everybody. We must all make more printers.
When Sysadmins Ruled the World comes across as a story which loves the classic post-war disaster movies but also returns to the theme of personal freedoms which runs underneath these stories.
More soon, just finishing up I, Robot and I, Rowboat.