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"Mo's latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of performing super-heroics"--
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Stross
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Orbit, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Ace
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780425281178
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