I must admit I agree with the publisher's review as a whole. What's the point in publishing a fiction hacked together so quickly that it can't withstand any artistic criticism?
Or was it an experiment aiming to show that fiction and documentary are two very different genres? Well than it was successful.
You may be aware of this by now, but there was no publisher. This is a short form dramatization of the events leading up to yesterday's Wanna Crypt attack.
The "criticism" was Stross imagining how absurd the truth of the whole situation played out and how if it was instead a work of fiction it wouldn't be well received for the reasons state in the work.
Or was it an experiment aiming to show that fiction and documentary are two very different genres? Well than it was successful.