Glasshouse [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Stross, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0441015085 ISBN 13: 9780441015085

Casa editrice: Ace, 2007

Riassunto

Awakening in a clinic with amnesia, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies out to kill him, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental polity simulating a pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity, but he experiences radical changes that threaten everything. Reprint.

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“The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross...[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years’ time.” – The New York Times

“A NEW WORK OF CREDIBLE AND BOLD SF.” – Science Fiction Weekly

“A world in which new ideas drip from every page.” – Revolution Science Fiction

“Stross’s latest and best (so far) novel...A twisty, engrossing, and very well-done paranoia thriller.” – SF Site

“Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.”—Gardner Dozois, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

“A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide—someone like Stross.”—Popular Science

L'autore:

Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He holds degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer, and freelance journalist. He is now a full-time writer.

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• Editore: Ace
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0441015085
• ISBN 13: 9780441015085
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352