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| Genre/forme : | Science fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Type d’ouvrage : | Fiction |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Charles Stross |
| ISBN : | 0441014984 9780441014989 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 123232449 |
| Description : | 351 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsabilité : | Charles Stross. |
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Résumé :
Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
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Our Future Just Around the Corner
"Hello. We're Round Peg/Round Hole Recruitment. We want to offer you a job on behalf of one of our clients ."Stross is noted for inventive, different and sometimes wry writing. Halting State is set in near future Scotland, now mostly independent. Information technology has taken on a more essential role...
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"Hello. We're Round Peg/Round Hole Recruitment. We want to offer you a job on behalf of one of our clients ."Stross is noted for inventive, different and sometimes wry writing. Halting State is set in near future Scotland, now mostly independent. Information technology has taken on a more essential role with government and commerce depend on digital information flows. Politically, the U.S. [not part of this story] is a bit of a has been with economic problems. Here, the Europeans and the Chinese compete for economic and political power through the use of information technology, including dirty tricks that could shut down a society.The story begins when a bank in a virtual reality game is robbed. The local police are soon involved as are investigators from Dietrich-Brunner Associates concerned with liability issues. The main characters whose story is told in alternate chapters are: Sue [Scottish police sergeant], Elaine [forensic accountant and gamer], and Jack [weird but hotshot games programmer]. There are several less important characters with different motivations and values. It gradually becomes clear that there is much more to this than robbery. Rather it is an IT war between British and Chinese programmers to control the IT infrastructure via hardware/software resources found in large, complex game environments.Once the environment becomes familiar, IT, gaming, Scottish dialect, the near future society, this is a mystery story with who did what and why revealed only at the end. The three major characters are well drawn and certainly different. Stross is clearly familiar with IT and large scale gaming environments so the details are more than persuasive. The political/social/economic comments made by various characters are also persuasive with a most realistic future environment although not a comfortable one for most of those who live in it.Recommendation:Stross is an increasingly popular author of inventive, thoughtful, and interesting SF stories. Because of the setting and the language [including IT and gaming vocabulary], it may take a bit for some readers to come to speed. Still, this is an inventive, interesting story that raises a variety of important issues about our future. Type is clear and readable with good white space. Margins are acceptable and "see-through" is not too bad. Cover art by Sophie Toulouse is attractive showing Elaine looking a vignettes from the story. For a SF book club or one concerned with futures, this would be a great discussion choice.
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