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Glasshouse has a Stepford wives come Truman Show feel with some interesting psychological/sociological aspects to refelct upon.
The plot at one point (well there may be more but I have a soft spot now) gets a little silly, just wait til you find out whats in the basement and how he wraps ... Read review
Advantages: Great Read Disadvantages: Ending was convoluted with significant plot holes
...paced and witty.
Glasshouse has a Stepford wives come Truman Show feel with some interesting psychological/sociological aspects to refelct upon.
The plot at one point (well there may be more but I have a soft spot now) gets a little silly, just wait til you find out whats in the basement and how he wraps the story up, but because he's such a good story teller I went along with him and it worked. Not his best book but a cracking holiday ... more
Really enjoyable book if you like scif fi. I wont go into the plot so much as its explained on the precis above and Amazon will probably do it better. I like Sci-Fi and I liked this. I love Iain Banks and have to wait for him to write his next book each time so I am constantly looking around to find books that help me pass the time! Charles Stross books (and in the past 2 months I have read 4 of them) are all inteilligent, fairly fast paced and witty. Glasshouse has a Stepford wives come Truman Show feel with some interesting psychological/sociological aspects to refelct upon. The plot at one point (well there may be more but I have a soft spot now) gets a little silly, just wait til you find out whats in the basement and how he wraps the story up, but because he's such a good story teller I went along with him and it worked. Not his best book but a cracking holiday read.
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Product details
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Title
Glasshouse
Author
Charles Stross
Publisher
Orbit
Number of Pages
400
Edition
Paperback
ISBN
0441014038; 0441015085; 1841493929; 1841493937
Manufacturer's product description
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 and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlier self knew. 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. Constructed to simulate a pre-accelerated culture, participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters, and of his own unbalanced psyche ...
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