Charles Stross' Diary (RSS Feed)
10-02-2007, 04:22 PM
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/gifs/hs/Halting_State_small_US.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441014984/charlieswebsi-20)http://www.antipope.org/charlie/gifs/hs/Halting_State_small_UK.jpg (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841496944/charliesplace-21)(Author clears throat, looks around nervously, climbs on soap box) ...
My latest novel, "Halting State", a near-future thriller of skullduggery and rules lawyering in the shadowy world of massively multiplayer virtual reality games, is officially published today in the US. (It'll be published in trade paperback in the UK in early January.) The book covers to either side link to Amazon pages where you can buy them now: it's interesting to compare the different approaches the British and American art directors have taken.
Now, if I wasn't a self-effacing Brit, I ought to be taking this opportunity to tell you how good this book is, and how you can't possibly live without it. But I'm shy and bashful, so I'll leave it up to some other folks to tell you about it.
Vernor Vinge said: "Charles Stross is the most spectacular science-fiction writer of recent years. In 'Halting State', he has written a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable.".
And William Gibson commented: "As keenly observant of our emergent society as it is our emergent technologies, 'Halting State' is one extremely smart species of fun."
But wait, there's more!
John Carmack (yes, that John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack)) adds, "Just the right mix of extrapolation and intrigue to leave me wondering to the very end."
While Bruce Schneier enthuses,"A great read, and a fascinating look at future of security in a massively networked world."
And the New York Times froths: "The Act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross ... [He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years' time".
Now that I've dropped the cover blurb neutron bomb, don't you want to read it?
(Original Post) (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/10/ahem.html)
My latest novel, "Halting State", a near-future thriller of skullduggery and rules lawyering in the shadowy world of massively multiplayer virtual reality games, is officially published today in the US. (It'll be published in trade paperback in the UK in early January.) The book covers to either side link to Amazon pages where you can buy them now: it's interesting to compare the different approaches the British and American art directors have taken.
Now, if I wasn't a self-effacing Brit, I ought to be taking this opportunity to tell you how good this book is, and how you can't possibly live without it. But I'm shy and bashful, so I'll leave it up to some other folks to tell you about it.
Vernor Vinge said: "Charles Stross is the most spectacular science-fiction writer of recent years. In 'Halting State', he has written a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable.".
And William Gibson commented: "As keenly observant of our emergent society as it is our emergent technologies, 'Halting State' is one extremely smart species of fun."
But wait, there's more!
John Carmack (yes, that John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack)) adds, "Just the right mix of extrapolation and intrigue to leave me wondering to the very end."
While Bruce Schneier enthuses,"A great read, and a fascinating look at future of security in a massively networked world."
And the New York Times froths: "The Act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross ... [He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years' time".
Now that I've dropped the cover blurb neutron bomb, don't you want to read it?
(Original Post) (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/10/ahem.html)