Somebody gets it right

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	• Halting State (Ace Science Fiction) Charles Stross Ace, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Latest novel (2008)

Better than "Glasshouse", and I thought "Glasshouse" was better than "Accelerando" (tighter, not so rambling). Good insights on what distinguishes our modern society from the societies of earlier times.

Getting it right

Charles Stross manages to make a book about a not so different world enjoyable. He was a little optimistic about when the virtual world would be here - it has already arrived. Internet warfare, electronic realities, and the crossover of behaviors bringing laws and lawyers to cyberspace. From the 'Atlantic Monthly' cartoon of a dog at the computer saying' "On-line no one knows you are a dog!" to present day reality of people selling clothes and accessories to avatars in 'Second Life'. Turns out that reality in not a crutch, it is what you make of it.

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Somebody gets it right

Reality in fiction often means not blowing little things that will shatter the willing suspension of disbelief. As someone who had been involved in the gaming industry and corporate commerce I have often found the descriptions in genre fiction harder to believe than vampires and ET's. Stross doesn't just get the detail right, he gets the mindsets dead on. Now add in good characters, a honking great plot line and his usual twisted view of the world and I have a book I will reread many times.

Gibson meets Dick

Stross's writing tends to throw a massive amount of information at you. Unlike both Dick and Gibson he understands that wild and unbalancing ideas are more palatable when you have characters you actually like. There are a few extraneous plot points but Stross is a talented writer and he makes you root for his characters.

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Now in paperback?from the author of Saturn?s Children.

In the year 2018, a daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates. 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. But Sergeant Sue Smith discovers that this virtual world robbery may be linked to some real world devastation.

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