Books Read in 2009: Charles Stross - Halting State
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No cheats, no back doors, no extra lives.
It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises that the robbery from an online game company is actually a robbery from an online game.
Just wonderful. Like she has nothing better to do. But when the bodies of actual people start to show up, it's clear that there is something very dangerous and very real going on at Hayek Associates.
If this is a game, someone is playing for keeps.
Another 9 out of 10 for Stross. I thoroughly enjoyed this, till the end anyway (which I found a bit - contrived? unrealistic? something like that). That aside, I would still recommend it.
No cheats, no back doors, no extra lives.
It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises that the robbery from an online game company is actually a robbery from an online game.
Just wonderful. Like she has nothing better to do. But when the bodies of actual people start to show up, it's clear that there is something very dangerous and very real going on at Hayek Associates.
If this is a game, someone is playing for keeps.
Another 9 out of 10 for Stross. I thoroughly enjoyed this, till the end anyway (which I found a bit - contrived? unrealistic? something like that). That aside, I would still recommend it.
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