Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn't risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.
Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out. . .
Praise for Charles Stross:
- 'Wonderful fun' Publishers Weekly
- 'Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of SF will follow tomorrow' Gardener Dozois
- 'Charles Stross owns the cutting edge of science fiction' James Patrick Kelly
Paperback:
£7.99
Published 05/07/2007
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