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List Price: $24.95Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 You Save: $17.96 (72%)Prices subject to change.
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Ace Hardcover
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 02, 2007
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Sales Rank: 278512
Studio: Ace Hardcover
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both...
Average Rating: 
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This is what real SciFi is all about (believable futures). If a writer can convince me what they are writing about can really happen, I am hooked. I am going read more of Charles Stross.
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I am not usually the type to put a book down without plowing through the pages til the end before writing a review. Unfortunately I will never make it to the end with this book. The premise of the book is intriguing and the plot summary refreshing. However the tech lingo is so highly inbedded in long verbose sentences that require so much thought and re-reading that the enjoyment of the story is lost. Also, reading from the second person makes reading even more taxing.
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I had never read any Charles Stross before. I found this to be a great book, well written with a nice, flowing style. The ideas about what the future will bring in the next few decades were believable and interesting, as was the story. A good read. I recommend it.
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Near the end of this book, one of the protagonists blurts, "They're tunelling TCP/IP over AD&D!" And that line is a very good test for potentials readers, because if you understand it (and why it's kind of funny), you might enjoy the book. If you're scratching your head, well, you might still enjoy the book, but you're certainly in for a whole lot more head scratching along the way.
When you strip everything away, this near-future thriller is a cautionary tale about network and database ... Read More
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I found the second person narrative to be horribly distracting, and could not make it past the second chapter because of this. While it is clearly a homage to adventure games gone by, I was hoping for a more grown up way of writing for this.
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