Halting State
โ Scribed by Charles Stross
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781429547161
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Awards
Hugo (nominee)
In
the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is
called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at
Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on
the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs,
with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within
the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation
seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a
devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch
an attack upon both...
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