From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed?The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.A cash-strapped religious order turns to a consultant to transform its fortunes; two implanted micro...