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'A great read, and a fascinating look at the future of security in a massively networked world.' Bruce Schneier, CTO, BT Counterpane 'The first couple of pages had me hooked, and I didn't touch another book until I finished it.' John Carmack, Technical Director, iD Software and creator of Doom and Quake 'As keenly observant of our emergent society as it is our emergent technologies, Halting State is one extremely smart species of fun.' William Gibson
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The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn's Children delivers a selection of speculative fiction brought together in one collection, showdcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
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What it's about,
By JE5 (Cascadia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wireless (Hardcover)
It's about alien intelligences, the cuban missle crisis, Cthulhu, the Iran-Contra affair, banning the internet, the singularity, rogue farms, posthuman aristocrats, Nigerian Email scams, the Fermi Paradox, a Faustian bargain, and of course the manipulation of spacetime. It's a collection of stories all of which are well worth reading.
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Literary science fiction,
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This review is from: Wireless (Mass Market Paperback)
I have really liked some of Charles Stross's novels, but not liked some of the others. This collection of short stories broke the pattern; I liked them all. Even the Introduction was funny and Stross's wry sense of humour is evident in many of the stories, even in titles such as "Trunk and Disorderly" which features an alcoholic dwarf mammoth. Although the stories mostly explore classic SF themes, such as first contact or alternate history, they all have an interesting new twist and are able to provoke as much deep philosophical thought as I can muster while trying to relax with a fun read. I guess I'll have to read it a couple of times and then perhaps go back to some of his novels which I didn't get the first time. Surely with an author this good, it must have been me missing something.
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Interesting mix - but Missile Gap is Excellent,
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This review is from: Wireless (Mass Market Paperback)
Entertaining mix of science fiction, horror, and other stories, but the stand out is "A Colder War", a strange and wonderful alternate history story of the late cold war that mixes real personages (e.g., Oliver North and other Iran-Contra scandal figures, mention of various abortive cold-war weapon programs) with Cthulhu mythos. What was compelling was the way Stross depicted the global military's attempts to conceptualize, contain, and weaponize the Mythos drawing on human physics and nanotechnology, which at times was quite amusing, while at the same time maintaining an authentic Lovecraftian aura of cosmic horror and human insignificance.
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