Halting State

The Halting State Series - Book 1

Halting State


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“He displays a knack for turning outrageously improbable speculation into certainty in this fast-paced, skillfully constructed computational mirror-maze.”

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Finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel

Nominated for the 2008 Locus Award

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. "The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross . [He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in 6, 60, or 600 years."-New York Times

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  1. Jean
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    Great book, needs two or more narrators

    Loved the book. It is on my short list of books to reread when it's hard to find something new. If you are a fan of Charles Stross and his near time fiction (vs the far time books where the human race is just a memory of the AI's we left behind) you will enjoy the plotting and cast of characters blended with technical geekery that Stross is so good at. Go to Amazon for the usual book reports. The only drawback is that one male reader is doing the entire book. The problem is that Stross has 3 main characters in this book, all speaking in the first person, and two are women. While the narrator is capable of 3 different accents it is very hard to keep track of who is speaking as the author switches point of view. This is probably easier to follow in print where paragraph breaks can give the reader a clue when pov changes. Here's hoping the book will be reproduced some day with 3 readers. I am willing to buy it again.