Halting State
โ Scribed by Stross, Charles
- Publisher
- Penguin Group;Ace Books
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
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