A Stranger in Paradise, by Edward M. Lerner, collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories: The Night of the RFIDs, Two kinds of People, Better the Devil You Know, Small Business, and A Stranger in Paradise.
Hezbollah has obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to Hezbollah, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back to a turning point in European history. Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel and prevent the nullification of all Western civilization. Their mission can be accomplished, if at all, only...
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION presents 8 science fiction stories – including two short novels – by bestselling author Edward M. Lerner. All deal with the future of technology and computing. <P> The author writes: «Computing is mere decades young, a set of technologies we have scarcely begun to develop. It's already been quite a ride. Now: Imagine every gadget around you becoming ever faster, cheaper, tinier, more interconnected, more intelligent . . . especially more intelligent. The stories...
