Glasshouse - by Charles Stross (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the 27th century, interstellar travel is by teleport gates, and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities. On the run from an unknown enemy, the memory-less Robin volunteers to participate in a unique experimental civil order--a decision that places him at the mercy of the experimenters and his own unbalanced psyche.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"ONE NIGHTMARISH PANOPTICON." - <i>The New York Times<br> </i> </b><br>When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities--including Robin's earlier self. <p/>On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for a place to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity: the Glasshouse, a simulated pre-accelerated culture where participants are assigned anonymized identities. But what looks like the perfect sanctuary turns into a trap, placing Robin at the mercy of the experimenters--and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross...[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years' time." - <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"A NEW WORK OF CREDIBLE AND BOLD SF." - Science Fiction Weekly <p/>"A world in which new ideas drip from every page." - Revolution Science Fiction <p/>"Stross's latest and best (so far) novel...A twisty, engrossing, and very well-done paranoia thriller." - SF Site <p/>"Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow."--Gardner Dozois, <i>Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</i><p>"A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide--someone like Stross."--<i>Popular Science</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He holds degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer, and freelance journalist. He is now a full-time writer.
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