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Everyone remembers where these were and what these were doing when one of the great and the nice is assassinated. You may kill a politician, but their ideas usually go on. They have a life of their own. Just how much more threatening, then, the ideas of mathematicians? The announcement of the answer to the traveling salesman problem heralds the imminent destruction of humanity. No more salesman; forget about problem. The storyplot begins when a computer programmer is notified by Feed that NP-complete problems lie in P, and so computer encryption is forever compromised. Knowing the disaster for what it is, he flees, but with this being such a hard take-off, he might not make it. Stross' ideas are hard, cold, pure, and funny, but it is his storytelling - the potency of the complete tale - that elevates his ideas into science-fiction excellence. Stross goes from alpha to omega faster than you can guess, and by doing this delivers a good entry into SF's growing dialogue about the Singularity. "Antibodies" brings to mind Isaac Asimov's similarly elegant short story "Living Space".
