Crunchers, Inc.

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Edith works for Number Crunchers Incorporated. Her job? Determine the monetary worth of each human being. But her corporation has a nemesis—the EISHies. The ridiculously sentimental organization sabotages Crunchers, Inc, and other places just like it. Edith must find how the EISHies infiltrated her business—and then figure out what to do about it, without succumbing to the EISHies’ subversive message: Everyone Is Someone’s Hero.

“The tale of an executive on the edge in a 1984-style setting.”
—Tangent Online

“Rusch has created a nicely updated twist on the old SFnal we-are-all-a-number trope.”
—The Internet Review of Science Fiction

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s occasionally strange stories have appeared in a variety of genres under a variety of names. She writes as Kris DeLake, Kristine Grayson, and Kristine Dexter in romance, Kris Nelscott in mystery, and uses her own name, Kristine Kathryn Rusch in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Usually she claims all of her short stories, although sometimes she wonders the wisdom of that, despite all the awards and best-of-the-year collections her stories have acquired.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476321394

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

Reviews for Crunchers, Inc.

[aulsmith · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What if all our actions were reduced to quantifiable numbers and we got just what we deserved? An amusing story of bureaucracy run amok.