by Charles Stross
I might have given this book a 2-star rating if it had managed to have its own story arc (instead of just being an installment in the series), but it really can't stand on its own. All it contains are an introduction to the world and some incidents. Then the book ends, and apparently we're suppose...
i think this suffered from my expectations of a charles stross book. took me forever to get through because i kept being distracted by other books (including books by stross that i absolutely love).
Miriam Beckstein works as a journalist and she's found evidence of money laundering, however instead of being a good thing it costs her her job. Then she receives a locket that she had when she was orphaned. Suddenly she finds herself in another world and she's part of the family who run things. ...
This was just okay. Oddly, it had exactly the opposite problem as the last (and only other, so far) Charles Stross novel I've read so far. Neither are enough to put me off reading more. When I read Singularity Sky, I found the writing very dense, and was often at sea, with no real idea what was goin...
Miriam Beckstein discovers an old locket among her birth mother's effects, and realizes that by gazing at it she can transport herself to a parallel world. Physically, the worlds are nearly identical, but her world has developed technologically far beyond the parallel world. Her long lost biologic...
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, someone with MS only needs an oncologist if they also have cancer!
I only got 75 pages in on this one. I don't know if I was in the wrong mood but despite a rather interesting story, I could not get past the uninteresting characters and what to me was the incredibly unnatural and just plain wierd dialogue/relationships between people. I suspect I didn't give it e...
Ah Stross... Awesomeness once more. The author steps away from hard sci-fi to present a parallel-universe world walking thriller that centres on Miriam Beckstein, journalist, who first discovers that she can cross over from one world to the other and then finds out that she is a long-lost member of ...
I really liked the concept behind this book, but the execution of it frustrated me overall.
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