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Charles Stross
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In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Hugo winner Charles Stross’ novel Halting State a “brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller.”
The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
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Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life as a successful reporter. When she gets iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she's uncovered. Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew - the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. The knotwork pattern within has a hypnotic effect on her.
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Stross' dry humor nowhere to be seen
- De Julie W. Capell en 02-04-18
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Wireless
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht, Robert Ian Mackenzie
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Prolific novelist Stross pauses to collect short stories that have not (yet) been stitched up into his longer work. Stories that move the US - USSR conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy (Locus Award-winner "Missile Gap"), offer a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox ("MAXOS"), and suggest clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland ("Snowball's Chance") demonstrate Stross's ability to crisscross genres, blending SF, fantasy, horror, and espionage.
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- De SA Developer en 02-22-16
De: Charles Stross
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Antibodies
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Jared Doreck
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Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when one of the great and the good is assassinated. You can kill a politician, but their ideas usually live on. They have a life of their own. How much more dangerous, then, the ideas of mathematicians? The announcement of the solution to the traveling salesman problem heralds the imminent destruction of humanity.
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- De Kindle Customer en 06-08-11
De: Charles Stross
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Death March
- De: Phil Tucker
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
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Pro-gamer and eighth grade teacher Chris is preoccupied by thoughts of how to save his brother when he gets an invitation he can't resist: Want to play Euphoria for free? The free pass brings him to a portal for the newest and most awesome game in the universe. Chris agrees to play Euphoria Online in Death March mode, a secret and deadly level of the game.
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- De superstardrifter en 08-31-18
De: Phil Tucker
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Stuff and Nonsense
- Threadbare, Book 1
- De: Andrew Seiple
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Meet Threadbare. He is 12 inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero. Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her. Fortunately for the little golem, he's quick to find allies, learn skills, gain levels, and survive horrible predicaments. Which is good, because his creator has a whole lot of enemies …
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An amazing tale you can't help but love
- De LITRPG Audiobook Reviews en 08-29-18
De: Andrew Seiple
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Glasshouse
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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With Glasshouse, Stross pens a Kafkaesque tale set in a 27th-century of teleport gates and mind-attacking network worms. After Robin awakes in a clinic, he struggles to summon details of his life, but too many of his memories have been wiped clean. More troubling is the stark awareness of immediate danger: someone is trying to kill him. On the run, Robin makes a desperate gamble and volunteers for what he hopes is the sanctuary of an unusual study at the Glasshouse. Once there, however, he realizes the true terror has only begun.
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- De Ken en 06-21-11
De: Charles Stross
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Viridian Gate Online: Firebrand: A litRPG Adventure
- The Firebrand Series, Book 1
- De: J. D. Astra, James Hunter
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
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New worlds get new kings, and that’s exactly what Abby thinks she’s found in her boss’ hacked code. With a cataclysmic asteroid careening toward Earth, the VRMMORPG project Viridian Gate Online has become more than just a game, and Abby thinks her boss, Robert Osmark, wants to be more than just its founding father.
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- De Michael Wilson en 12-24-20
De: J. D. Astra, y otros
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River of Teeth
- River of Teeth Series, Book 1
- De: Sarah Gailey
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
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In the early 20th century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: They are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe.
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Demented fun
- De D. Daly en 11-30-17
De: Sarah Gailey
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Starfish
- Rifters Trilogy Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Watts
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
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An excellent story, but only half of it
- De Casey en 02-12-20
De: Peter Watts
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Opening Moves
- The Gam3, Book 1
- De: Cosimo Yap
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Alan can't wait to play, recklessly diving into the digital universe. Soon though, Alan realizes the Game is anything but simple, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined.
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LitRPG with a real story
- De White Rabbit en 01-29-19
De: Cosimo Yap
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AlterWorld
- Play to Live, Book 1
- De: D. Rus
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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A new pandemic - the perma effect - has taken over Earth of the near future. Whenever you play your favorite online game, beware: your mind might merge with the virtual world and dump its comatose host. Woe be to those stuck forever in Tetris! But some unfortunates - the handicapped and the terminally ill, shell-shocked army vets, wronged crime victims and other society misfits - choose to flee real life willingly, escaping to the limitless world of online sword and sorcery MMORPGs.
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One Of The Best Books I Have
- De Steven en 11-20-15
De: D. Rus
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- James M. Orlando
- 02-07-24
Still good on a second read
I initially read Halting State not long after it released and it helped make Charles Stross one of my favorite authors. This review is based on my second experience with the novel, as I had a lot of memory gaps on the events in the story.
The most jarring issues with this novel and its presentation are the use of second-person for the various protagonists and Robert Ian MacKenzie's accent. The former is consistent throughout the story and, because it's a fairly rare writing choice, frequently causes the audience to recover when it is used. The reader is placed in the shoes of the main character of each chapter, while all other action and interactions are presented in third person.
MacKenzie's accent is only jarring for the first minute or so of the book, then most American listeners will have adapted and enjoy his presentation without difficulty. He is eloquent and overflowing with voices for the various characters.
From my initial reading of Halting State over a decade ago, my memory retained the main premise, the ending, and that's about it. The characters were lost, but I'm glad I found them again. Their interactions felt natural. Some character decisions give me a stronger "what a stupid choice!" than they did when I was younger. That's experience, I guess.
Halting state was much more enjoyable for my younger self on my initial reading than listening to the audio version today. I'll rate it "You're a perfect snapshot of the expectations of near-future technology, society, and the economy in the early 2010's, but you're also a little bothersome."
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- Arturo
- 04-03-15
I need moré Stross
I cant get enough of this universe. Can't wait to see what else this elder God dreams of. Awesome book
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- Brian
- 05-03-18
This is difficult subject matter for fiction
If you aren't already quasi-tech savvy, you may want to skip this. I applaud the author for his vanguard approach to the influence of the virtial online world to our "meatspace" existence. I call this honest hard sci-fi.
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- Norman
- 01-16-17
My favorite book
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Near future sci-fi, with new variants on crime, computing and living, that are not just plausible but seem prophetic. The characters are real and would be great friends. the follow up book is not as good but Charlie Stross writes great initial books.
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- Dennis D Duquette
- 07-28-17
POV its only flaw
This would have been absolutely amazing if Stross had only used 1st or 3rd person. Addressing the reader personally makes it harder for me to stay in the story.
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- XReviewer
- 06-14-15
Dense read
This book is really too dense to listen to. The performance complete w Scottish accents is excellent but does not make easier for a non native. Great story; Stross combines his knowledge of economics and IT to great effect, once again making us think differently about both.
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- 06-23-23
second person narrative
The plot of the story is interesting, but narrating in second person and switching characters can be confusing. The narration doesn't help with this problem, either.
Also, it is thick with British slang, which is not bad, but is something of which you should be aware of you're not familiar.
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- Richard
- 04-02-16
sorry to see it end
tough going at first (starts with 3 separate narratives), but came together nicely. Loved the Scottish flavor.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 08-22-11
An excellent listen with a dynamite plot
CS has unleashed a real winner with Halting State. Set in the near future, the author combines the worlds of online gaming and cyber-espionage with a unique multi-1st person narrative style. Both worlds are evolved in ways that are not only quite convincing, but also reveal a keen sense of where things are going. For example, the fact that online games develop a level of complexity that requires independent companies to manage ingame economic stability in order to maintain a level of "fun" by the participants rings true as outlined. What begins as an apparent farce, the robbery of an online game bank (in the gamespace) is slowly revealed to portend dramatic ramifications.
The characters are believable and engaging each in their own way. The twists and turns, along with the many surprises, both inside and outside the gaming world make for a riveting tale. Most near future sci-fi tends to minimally extrapolate current trends with sci-fi elements relegated to batman "utility belt" gimmicks; Halting State manages to leap ahead without leaving the reader behind and produces a world one can imagine existing in the next several years that is substantially different from our own, but still quite recognizable.
The narrator also deserves special kudos for pulling off a reading of a story set in Scotland where the accents are authentic, but easily understood and not overwhelming.
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- S. Yates
- 08-14-16
Fun, technical, with just enough thrills
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This turned out to be clever, satirical, well-plotted SF/techno-thriller. I'm glad I kept reading despite my difficulty in getting into the book at first. Stross has used three POV characters and each line is told in the second person, a POV I haven't seen much since my "choose your own adventure" days. Moreover, with it told from the second person as if you were three different characters, it is all the more disorienting as you leap from Elaine (a forensic accountant with a medieval battle reenactment hobby), to Sue (a tough-minded Scottish police sergeant), to Jack (an insecure, unemployed game programmer). It helps that you get to like all three characters and that Stross has a good eye for the humor in our technological present and future, and a definite fondness for gamers and everyone's desire to escape their reality. The story is a little convoluted, but it still mostly makes sense and is complex in a believable way. Perhaps the highest praise I can give was I really wanted to know what happened to some of the characters after the story ended. If you like William Gibson-esque tech, but want a little Vonnegut humor and flair, you could do worse than Halting State.
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