This Sci-Fi Author Thinks Amazon Will Cause an Apocalypse — wired.com

Charles Stross is an award-winning science fiction author whose books include The Bloodline Feud, about timeline-hopping narco-terrorists, Halting State, a near-future crime thriller set in Scotland, and The Rapture of the Nerds, a humorous take on the technological singularity. He’s also the author of The Laundry Files series, which blends spy thrillers, Lovecraftian horror, and workplace humor. The latest Laundry novel, The Rhesus Chart, suggests that using a Kindle might make you susceptible to the malign sorcery of Jeff Bezos. It’s an idea inspired by Stross’s real-life experiences with Amazon.

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