Strange days.... Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. Strange nights.... At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. But soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system - and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night. Final hours.... In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks.
Three powerful and unscrupulous politicians are brutally murdered by a group of assassins demanding that politics be restored to the people. Only Michael O'Rourke, a junior Congressman, holds a clue to the violence.
When the planet of Moscow was annihilated, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was.
In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer's consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.
From the short and funny MAXOS to the long and dark Missile Gap, Wireless is an amazing tour through Stross' futuristic world view. Central to this view is the observation that if there is anything out there in the stars it will surely defy our comprehension.
