Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels, including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturns Children. Born in Leeds, England, in , Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science/5(). Glasshouse is an intense and mindstretching mixture of hard SF and satire in a psychological puzzle centered around memory and identity. Stross writes well but in a way that is often vague, confusing, and hard to understand. The narrator describes things from the setting's (future) present day point of view with little explanation/5(). The Glasshouse is run by two notorious Curious Yellow collaborators, Major-Doctor Fiore and Bishop Yourdon. Meanwhile, Robin’s memories begin to surface. He was a member of the combat Linebarger Cats and later became an agent—sent into the Glasshouse, memories suppressed to evade the censors, to find out what’s really going on.
Glasshouse. Copyright by Charles Stross. SOJALS rating: Very good (3/5). Reeve is one of those, He's staying in the Glasshouse, a medical institution largely dedicated to victims like him. Persuaded to be a subject of a social experiment that may speed his recovery, he finds himself. Glasshouse. by Charles Stross. Reviewed by Ted Gioia. The set-up is rife with opportunities for ironic commentary, and Stross takes full advantage of the potential for confusion and dismay when members of a future society confront the world we all know and love. Glasshouse is definitely the best Charles Stross book I have read so far and I hope that even better ones are in store for Every time I begin a new Charles Stross novel, I feel the same excitement as when I first read William Gibson's Neuromancer in I'm reading a work of science fiction that is.
Glasshouse by Charles Stross ISBN ISBN Paperback; New York, New York: Ace, J; ISBN Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels, including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturns Children. Born in Leeds, England, in , Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Glasshouse by Charles Stross. "Glasshouse," a science fiction novel by Charles Stross, was first published in It's a loose sequel to "Accelerando" written in , but it can be read as a "stand-alone" story. This book is a combination of space opera, detective story, hard science fiction and psychological thriller.
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