A cornucopia of notions and neat writing. --The San Diego Union-Tribune Makes hallucinogens obsolete. --Cory Doctorow Stross sizzles with ideas...whimsical and funny as well as challenging and thoughtful. --The Denver Post Like Bruce Sterling or William Gibson at their best, Stross surfs a wave of ideas and information that seems always on the brink of collapsing into incomprehensibility, but never does--a careening plunge through strangeness in which every page contains something to mess with your head. --SF Site