Halting State
Being a semi-regular browser in the bigger Rotterdam bookstores, I recently stumbled across this little 2007 number by Charles Stross called Halting State (the first few chapters). And I can’t say much more other than I haven’t read a book cover to cover like that this year, or last year for that matter.
A great near-future novel with (MMO)RPGs, swanky personal HUDs, a good helping of dialect and technobable. And as what seems to be an hommage to the RPG genre, it’s written in the first person of three characters, which made the read all the more interesting. The only thing it was missing was a bit of a glossary at the end, but maybe that’s because I’m not a native English speaker. Sometimes the acronyms had me scratching my head for a bit.