Halting State
 

Halting State

by Charles Stross

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... (read more)

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Andrew L
  • Rated 5 stars

I just finished Charles Stross’s last book, Halting State, which proved to be a facinating, and ultimately a very different read than I had been expecting.

The book is set nearly twenty years from now, and technology has progressed much as it could be expected. Mobile phones, wireless devices, and the internet have taken on a far more ingrained role in society than it is today. The premise of the book starts with a bank robbery in MMORPG land - a band of Orcs break into a...

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Jeff C
  • Rated 2 stars

The author seems to try too hard for a casual tone and the writing ends up sounding unpolished, almost amateur. The story is also told entirely in second person ("you" do this, "you" think that), yet from the perspective of three characters, for no apparent reason. (Well, maybe it's supposed to tie into the game idea the book is based around, but this is never developed.) The characters are thin, and the reader's effort to develop any relationship with them is hampered by the use of second...

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