David Marusek — GETTING TO KNOW YOU Selling Very Well
Distributor orders are pouring in for David Marusek’s instant classic collection, Getting to Know You, making it likely to go out of print on or shortly after publication. If you’re interested in some of the finest short sf produced over the past decade, take heed of Publishers Weekly’s Starred Review: “Marusek, in a blurb for this superb collection of 10 stories (all the shorter SF he’s published to date), gives fair warning when he says he lays his stories ‘like traps and bait[s] them with shiny ideas…’ Marusek’s ’shiny ideas’–cloned laborers, electronic ‘proxies,’ the ’boutique economy’–sparkle, but these assured stories also draw on core SF themes: in the face of change, what does it mean to be human, and where do we draw the line between helping ourselves and hurting others?”