Laika's Ghost: Stories by Karl Schroeder

Ukrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned genocide-machines of the Cold War, but he inevitably encounters others who have come to the same remote places with more sinister aims. In these widely acclaimed stories, collected here for the first time, Gennady encounters: - An Azerbaijani beer company that ma...