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Glasshouse




GLASSHOUSE




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 Glasshouse




Charles Stross

Ace titles by Charles Stross

SINGULARITY SKY

IRON SUNRISE

ACCELERANDO

THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES

GLASSHOUSE




For Ken MacLeod




1

Duel

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt
strung with human skulls. Her hair forms a smoky wreath around her open and curious face. She's
interested in me.

"You're new around here, aren't you?" she asks, pausing in front of my table.

I stare at her. Apart from the neatly articulated extra shoulder joints, the body she's wearing is roughly
ortho, following the traditional human body plan. The skulls are subsized, strung together on a necklace