Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Halting State. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. The plot opens with a faux email addressed to Nigel MacDonald, listing a job offer. Halting State - Ebook written by Charles Stross. This pattern excepts only the prologue and epilogue of the novel, which both contain faux email to supporting characters.Ī sequel to Halting State entitled Rule 34 (previously '419') was released in mid-2011. Each chapter is followed in sequential trilogies (Sue, Elaine, Jack) for the duration of the novel. 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. The main story is split between three main protagonists, Sue, Elaine, and Jack, respectively, whose sections are always in the second person, with italicized thoughts in first person during each character's respective chapter. Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England in 1964.

The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. The novel was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 2008. Halting State By Charles Stross Paperback Mass Market Paperback 7. (Halting State 1) by Charles Stross (Goodreads Author) 3. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Hugo winner Charles Stross’ novel Halting State a brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller. The book is on its second printing in the United States. It features speculative technologies, including Specs and virtual server networks over mobile phones. The plot centres around a bank robbery in a virtual world. Stross has said that it is 'a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games'. Halting State is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on Octoand in the UK in January, 2008.

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