Kiosk

Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk" is one of those stories that looks at technology and its effects on society.

REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #25 edited by Gardner Dozois 2008

[The following story was originally reviewed as part of the 2007 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees reading project] Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk" is one of those stories that looks at technology and its effects on society.

REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2008

Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk" is one of those stories that looks at technology and its effects on society.

REVIEW: 2007 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees 2008

The palace, on the banks of the Nile, is not remarkable for its size or splendour, but the gardens are extensive and beautiful, and adorned by a Kiosk, which is one of the most elegant and fanciful creations I can remember.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 Various

[228] {272} The Kiosk is a Turkish summer house: the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree, the wall intervenes.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

The most complex of the financial tales, however, is Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk," which imagines how replication devices might affect a downtrodden, post-war economy, while also suggesting the unpredictability and, perhaps, the sheer strangeness of history; it's someone from "a small place under unique circumstances," whose story is altered beyond recognition by outsiders who were "the Voice of History," who manages to change the globe 267.

The Little Professor: 2008

Like "The Mists of Time," "Kiosk" dryly notes that the past will always be a foreign country.

The Little Professor: 2008

The most complex of the financial tales, however, is Bruce Sterling's "Kiosk," which imagines how replication devices might affect a downtrodden, post-war economy, while also suggesting the unpredictability and, perhaps, the sheer strangeness of history; it's someone from "a small place under unique circumstances," whose story is altered beyond recognition by outsiders who were "the Voice of History," who manages to change the globe 267.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection 2008

Like "The Mists of Time," "Kiosk" dryly notes that the past will always be a foreign country.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection 2008

'You know that little place they call the "Kiosk" down the Grand

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890