![]() ![]() ![]() I have moved these two book up to my top ten list - and hope that we get a wee bit more in the future. Once again, the FANTASTIC Scottish dialect (and absolutely tremendous performance by the reader) and will sweep you away as the twists and turns look like a cross between HOMELAND and a LaCarre novel. Again though, it is a rock solid procedural with a clever and appealing set of smart characters. This book is less frantic and easier to track than the first one. When I read the first book, Halting State, I initially found it hard to get into the three rotating storylines and the fact that the narration is, oddly, in the second person - but it was worth the work to do so. Halting State and Rule 34 are a swirling, clever, funny and very complex pair of police procedurals done just enough into the future to look at the next big thing in social engineering, computing, communications and just about anything else you can imagine. Morgan (Altered Carbon) and most recently Charles Stross. Hamilton (Void Trilogy, Greg Madel Series), Dan Simmons (Hyperion), Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space Trilogy, Terminal World), Richard K. I enjoy hard science fiction particularly when it comes in very long books or multiple book series - with one or more of the following themes: modern space operas, complex storylines, detective or noir/cyberpunk overtones, cascading clever thoughts/dialogue and/or military. Wild Ride Picks Up Where "Halting State" Left Off ![]()
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