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Charles Stross
Charles Stross, 49, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 and 2010 Hugo awards for best novella, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages.Like many writers, Stross has had a... show more

Charles Stross, 49, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 and 2010 Hugo awards for best novella, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages.Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped-catastrophes in the past, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stake-out) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing he tried to change employer just as the bubble burst).
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Yeah, on a second reading, still not that fab. "The AI manipulated everybody so that nobody had any real agency," is actually a really dull concept and it's at least the third time Stross has used it. Additionally the story story stops with heaps of loose ends and not much clarity about what's reall...
bookaneer
bookaneer rated it 11 years ago
~~Moved from GR~~ Can't finish. Gahhhhh. It seems like a very cool concept--a noir police procedural set in a near future where actual and virtual realities have been melded. But the writing. It is multi-narrator, present-tense, second-person narrative. Whyyy! I mean, I know I'm rigid about narrat...
TCWriter
TCWriter rated it 11 years ago
I've thought about it long enough; despite the somewhat uncomfortable second-person perspective, I like Rule 34. A lot. Stross has built an interesting near-future police force, and the plot delivers enough interesting twists to keep the pages turning.
Datepalm
Datepalm rated it 13 years ago
Starts out more clever that interesting, though the prose is always charming (in it's particular foul mouthed way) and does a lot to carry the otherwise drab first half. Somewhat to my surprise, then the plot and characters start working together to tell a story and it actually gets good. Neat twist...
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