Friday, April 9, 2010

Glasshouse by Charles Stross


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"Glass House", a fiction of Charles Stross, was published in 2006. This is a sequel to lose "speeding" written in 2005, but can be read as a story independently. This book is a combination of space opera, mystery, science fiction and psychological thriller difficult. The first floor works very well in this book.

Robin, the protagonist wakes up in a rehabilitation facility in another body, with little memory it has. He soon discovered,someone wants him dead and his only chance to escape the murderess is known as a sociological experiment in a greenhouse join. Five couples, with assumed identities, the signing of contracts and the obligation to live in a controlled environment for three years. The simulation environment from the historical period 1990-2010, the old story of the people of the century, XXVII. Robin is the identity of a woman in 1950, Reeve. It 'aims to discoverExperience as memories suddenly return. But the real danger or out of it, which looks more like a prison designed as an experience? Robin aka Will Reeve was most at risk?

Stross is a fascinating world with a detailed plot intelligent, who also created complex and dense. The pace is fast, sometimes too fast and some chapters can be synchronized with the world focused on the future technology of the twenty-seventh century. The parties mayyou scratching your head in confusion, but science fiction and as a specialist Chinese, will this book.

Publisher: Ace (June 2007)
ISBN: 978-0441015085
Pages: 352
Price: $ 7.99

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