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Charles Stross |
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Ace Books, 2007 |
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2008 Hugo Nominated 2008 Locus SF Nominated |
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| Sub-Genre Tags: | Near-Future Hard SF Singularity |
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   (12 reads / 9 ratings)
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Synopsis
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both...
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- Where I'm actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane ...
For a possible direction of this kind of thing, I'd recommend Charles Stross' boom “Halting State”, set in a world where almost everyone can switch on augmented reality at the touch of a button. Also, it's a good book. ... - Review: Halting State by Charles Stross | The Secret Lair
Trackbacks/Pingbacks. Unquiet Desperation » Blog Archive » Tricksters, Operations, Birthdays, Interviews, Reviews, Winners, and Where to Lay the Blame - [...] My review of Charles Stross's Halting State is up on The Secret Lair. [...] ... - Charles Stross Halting State
Charles Stross Halting State (ItemID: 293840) by smerlo1 AUD 3.00 (0 Bids) End Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:03:14 +1000 Duration: 1 Week | Country: Australia | Zip/Postal Code: 2019 Category: SciFi (423) of Books and Magazines (355) ... - Book Review: "Halting State" by Charles Stross - Notes from the ...
I just finished reading Charles Stross' book entitled "Halting State." I heard about it on Roderick Jones' blog, MetaSecurity, and put it on my list. I am certainly glad that I did. Those of you who have been around for a while know ... - Halting State
Halting State. author: Charles Stross name: Steev average rating: 3.76 book published: 2007 rating: 4 read at: 2010/07/08 date added: 2010/07/12 shelves: fun, novels. read more. - Charlie Stross's Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG ...
I just finished re-reading Acclerando and was mildly irritated that my brain had to spin down to normal levels until new Charles Stross came out. Just ordered the book from Amazon. Take a look at this ... - Scottish Fiction – MacLeod/Stross
I've just finished Ken MacLeod's latest 'The Restoration Game' hard on the heels of 'Halting State' by Charles Stross. Coincidentally both books feature the concept of online games being used for real life purposes. ... - Book Chat 27: Charles Stross/ Halting State
Charles Stross helped develop the Internet? ?Cliff? said...Well, bits of it. ?Evil Editor? said...He was Al Gore's 2nd in command ?sylvia? said...There were definitely issues that felt core that I didn't really feel I understood - like ... - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Review ...
You could sum up Charles Stross' The Laundry Files series as “Dilbert meets Cthulhu,” but while I've never been much of a fan of Dilbert (though Scott Adams' strips are funny and often too apt), I am a total fan of Bob Howard. It's not just that I identify with .... Reader's of Stross's LiveJournal know that he's just sent off the manuscript of Rule 34, the sequel to Halting State, and is now getting stuck in on the next Laundry book, The Apocalypse Codex. Charlie Stross ... - SF REVIEWS.NET: Halting State / Charles Stross ˝
That lapse into the mundane notwithstanding, Halting State is another winner for Charles Stross, a writer who has more than ably grabbed the high-tech baton from last century's forebears — Gibson, Sterling — and is still running laps ...
