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Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)
by: Charles Stross

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780441016075
ISBN: 0441016073
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Ace
Sales Rank: 6247
Studio: Ace

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Product Description:
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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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- My short $.02
This is not a standalone review, just an addition to one you've already read. While it's a good book, it's certainly not a breakthrough concept like the publisher makes it out to be. There's been quite a few books about life in the digital age, and even a couple about crime in the digital world spilling over into the meat world. It's a pleasant read, certainly I was able to put it down when necessary, for instance, once Hereo's Season 2 showed up, I stopped reading and watched that. Good, but not great. A reader, but not a library addition unless you're a fan.

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- Halting Read
Way back when I was in seminary school, there was a person there who said you could never write a narrative in the second person. I wonder if someone rapped Charles Stross's knuckles then too. This novel is stubbornly written entirely in the second person--the first novel I have ever read written that way. Perhaps it was to imitate the vernacular of video games ("you have picked up a level 7 blunderbuss...") to give the reader a closer connection to the characters. At first it was extremely irritating, often requiring me as a reader to do some subliminal translating before proceeding. However, by the time I had reached the climax of the plot, I agreed that this story could not have been written any other way. It left me with an eagerness to pick up the book again and read it over on some later date.

There has been a few negative reviews of this book--mostly that it starts off at a strong pace, but fizzles ... Read More

Rating:

- "Halting State"? "Halting Read" more like.
I hate to criticise one of my favorite authors, but I have to agree with E. Lyons sentiments: "Function lost in form".

There are no technical challenges for me in this book. I'm an internet software engineer familiar with crypt keys and even the nascent quantum computing.
I'm British, so the scots brogue is clear, even cute.
Also I've been an avid RPG gamer (City of Heroes mostly).

However suppose you login your favorite RPG in which you have created three characters - but the game randomly selects one of your characters to play and gives no indication as to which one!
I guess you'd have to spend 10 minutes finding a clan mate to say "Hello bear", or "Hello brown Orc" or whatever. It would no longer be your favorite RPG I assure you.

I bought this book Oct 2007. I tried 3 times to get into the book but I just couldn't keep track of who I was meant to be. Maybe ... Read More

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- Simply awesome
best book about the coming future and what physical and digital systems will look like and how we will interact with them
Read this book!!

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