Stross has created two of my favorites worlds in his Laundry Files series and now with the near-future augmented reality-driven world of Halting State and Rule Stross transports us a few years into the future with amazingly realistic (and similarly fantastic) portrayal of day-to-day life with technology, where today's frustrations have become the future's frightening normality.4/5(). · Halting State is “near future sci-fi” which means it depicts a future that we could conceivably see in the next decade. The novel is prescient in several ways. In the seven years since it was written, some of Stross’s predictions have almost come to pass as described. · Overview. “Halting State [is] a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable.”. – Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End. In the year , Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group.
From Bookmarks Magazine. Reviewers expressed shock and awe at Charles Stross's imagined future, because it's just a bit too probable. Even his minor details, such as clothing with RFID tags that can speak to washing machines, are mind-bending. Overall, Halting State is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, and highly intelligent novel. Halting State is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on 2 October and in the United Kingdom in January Stross has said that it is "a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games". The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world. It features speculative technologies, including Specs and virtual server networks over mobile phones. Read "Halting State" by Charles Stross available from Rakuten Kobo. "Halting State [is] a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable." - Vernor Vinge, autho.
Halting State is “near future sci-fi” which means it depicts a future that we could conceivably see in the next decade. The novel is prescient in several ways. In the seven years since it was written, some of Stross’s predictions have almost come to pass as described. Halting State. by Charles Stross. · 11, Ratings · Reviews · published · 22 editions. In the year , Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinbu. Want to Read. Shelving menu. Shelve Halting State. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Halting State is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on 2 October and in the United Kingdom in January Stross has said that it is "a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games ". The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.
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