Wireless

I didn't 'like' many of these stories, but they were well written with wild landscapes & interesting points. The first few were plain depressing, others were funny, & the last one just pains me in its complexity. Not what I expected, but fascinating. I can't say I really look forward to reading more......more

It's really hard to give a star rating to a short story collection, especially one by an author who is as hit-and-miss as Charles Stross. I've read two of his novels. I hated one and really enjoyed the other. That's kind of how I feel about the stories in Wireless. Two of the stories, "Down on the F......more

WIRELESS is brilliant from cover to cover. The first story/novella, "Missile Gap," is my favorite. The ideas! What if a vast alien intelligence, without our noticing, instantly "peeled the Earth like a grape" and transferred it to a colossal deep space disk large enough to contain a billion Earths?......more

Charles Stross, as told by everybody and their uncle, is an author who's 'The Boss' in terms of ideas. This collection establishes that again. In the process it also proves that his stories are basically scarecrows holding heavy-ammo guns. Characters are typical, dialogues have a strange tilt that m......more

Wireless is a quality short-story collection by Stross. Quick reviews: Missile Gap: This is the story of a late 1950s earth whose crust has been peeled off our globe and stuck on an even larger flat plate, what that means to the people who live there, and how that influences the tensions of the Cold......more