Carol Cooper's Ownd. The novel is prescient in several ways. Or paintball guns? Eventually the train rolls through a grim landscape of warehouses and high-rise apartments, before diving into some kind of tunnel and surfacing in a huge, vaulted Victorian station.
You find yourself in a strange concourse, facing a curved wall that seems to be carved out of a cliff of red sandstone; there are inward-looking windows set in it, and gargoyles about to take flight hunch their wings beneath the cast-iron buttresses that support the arching roof. Ten car-sickening minutes later Glasgow seems to be built on a grid system dropped across a bunch of hills, and its roads are populated exclusively by automotive maniacs , the driverless taxi drops you in a concrete wilderness near a river.
Halting State. 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. Languages English. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Hugo winner Charles Stross' novel Halting State a "brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller.
Details Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Why is availability limited? Sign in Cancel. Add a card. Add a card Contact support Cancel. So any bank looted is a serious crime. And if something else, perhaps more sinister, is going on as well, the authorities will, if only by accident in this case, sink their teeth into the matter.
As well as certain other interested parties who have a vested interested in covering their arses. And keeping in mind that human nature is a constant even when technologies change rapidly.
I think so. Instead of staying decently outside the narrative and peering at the actors, the second person directs — you become part of the story, bouncing around uncomfortably inside it.
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