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.
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.