Betsey's review
Halting State
by Charles Stross
Betsey's review
Halting State by Charles Stross
Betsey's review
rating:
bookshelves:
scifi,
scifi-nearfuture
recommended for: gamers.
I really enjoyed this latest book by Charles Stross. I'm enjoying seeing his themes as an author develop across his books. This book was set in the near-future. Like the book I read before this one, the brief wonderous life of Oscar Wao, it was a book that required a lot of prior knowledge in order to understand it. On the one hand, I love being the insider. On the other, well, I guess people who read Stross are going to all be insiders to his type of world. In the general rating, I give this book a 5/5. However, if I were only comparing internally to other Stross books, I might give this a 4/5. It wasn't quite the blockbuster that some of his other books are, but it was very smart, nice character development, and very entertaining.
