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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—including Robin’s earlier self.

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, a simulated pre-accelerated culture where participants are assigned anonymized identities. But what looks like the perfect sanctuary turns into a trap, placing Robin at the mercy of the experimenters—and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche…

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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

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 26, 2007
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 333 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441015085
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441015085
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.21 x 0.87 x 6.69 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #377,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #526 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)
- #605 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
- #1,224 in Dystopian Fiction (Books)
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Charles Stross, 58, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005, 2010, and 2015 Hugo awards for best novella, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages.

Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped-catastrophes in the past, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stake-out) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing he tried to change employer just as the bubble burst).

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...Another great read, and Charlie Stross has not let me down yet (I have read 8 of his books so far).Read more

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