by Charles Stross
[a: John Scalzi|4763|John Scalzi|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1407277112p2/4763.jpg] claims to be a gateway drug into science fiction literature, I suppose he may well be but I believe Charles Stross is almost the opposite of that. Stross is deservedly one of the most popular active sci- fi autho...
This could have been really dull because there's really nothing new in it by way of SF ideas; it relies on wormholes/teleporting, nanobots, uploading your mind then downloading it to any body you fancy, editing your memories in the process, and not much else. You can find all these elements in many ...
This is an interesting story about some people who agree to participate in an experimental polity, the glasshouse in a future that includes teleports for interstellar travel. Robin is fleeing from a ruthless pursuer and has to work at staying alive as well as trying to understand what the world he's...
Like the Laundry novels by the same author, this was a fast paced adventure with some dizzying twists and turns. It took me a little while to get into it - the far-future tech and world-building takes some getting used to - but once I did, I was very much hooked. Highly recommended sci-fi thriller...
If I had to pick one word for this book, it would be "smug." I don't have a lot of tolerance for smugness at the best of times, and Glasshouse did nothing to earn its attitude. The worldbuilding was flimsy (if your characters are going to be motivated to horrific acts in pursuit of money, you need t...
The premise of post humans who can move from body to body, make copies of themselves and erase memories as needed seems like it might be flighty fun until Robin joins an experiment to live like a 20th century woman for an indeterminate amount of time cut off from the rest of the universe. The past ...
I enjoyed reading this book, but there was much about it that was awkward and the plot felt a bit jammed. Stross needed to explain back events in order to make the current events work, and how these events are reveled are less than convincing. However, I wasn't unhappy that I spent the time reading ...
It was really hard to get into at first. For some reason Stross insists on using a different timescale even though their bear a slight linguistic resemblance to terms we use today. It was frustrating and unnecessary. Although it got off to a slow start, it did pick up after the first few chapters ...
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