Rule 34 - Charles Stross [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
Part 1
LIZ: Red Pill, Blue Pill
ANWAR: Job Interview
TOYMAKER: The Leith Police Dismisseth Us
LIZ: Morning After
ANWAR: Office Worker
TOYMAKER: Headhunter
LIZ: Black Swans
ANWAR: Diplomat
TOYMAKER: Hostile Takeover
LIZ: Snowballing Hell
ANWAR: Cousin Tariq
TOYMAKER: Reality Excursion
KEMAL: Spamcop
FELIX: First Citizen
THE OPERATION: Blofeld Blues
Part 2
LIZ: Mote, Eye, Redux
ANWAR: Running Scared
TOYMAKER: Fucktoy
DOROTHY: Safeword
TOYMAKER: Abused
LIZ: Bereavement Counselling
ANWAR: Sleep-walk
TOYMAKER: Happy Families
FELIX: E-commerce
ADAM: LOLspammers
Part 3
DOROTHY: Breakdown
LIZ: It’s Complicated
ANWAR: Getting Answers
DOROTHY: Rewind
LIZ: Project ATHENA
ANWAR: Bluebeard
LIZ: Dominoes Fall
ANWAR: Toymaker
LIZ: Protective Custody
FELIX: Hummingbird
DOROTHY: 2.0
LIZ: Debrief
ATHENA: Meatpuppet
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Stross, Charles.
p. cm.
ISBN : 978-1-101-51664-5
1. Women detectives—Scotland—Fiction. 2. Ex-convicts—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Computer crimes—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Rule thirty-four.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
No author works in a vacuum, and this book in particular benefited from the critical input of dozens of people. First and foremost I’d like to thank my agent Caitlin Blasdell for her patience and perseverance. I’d also like to thank my test readers, notably Stew Wilson, Marcus Rowland, Vernor Vinge, Sean Eric Fagan, David Skogsberg, Jeffrey Wilson, David Goldfarb, Soon Lee, Skip Huffman, Ross Younger, Harry and Omega, Dave Brown, Milena Popova, Anthony Cunningham, and Roy Øvrebø.
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