Halting State

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'''Stross, Charles. Halting State.''' New York: Ace, 2007. London: Orbit Books, 2008.

Wikipedia entry quotes Stross as calling Halting State "a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games" and has the plot centering "on a bank robbery in a virtual world" featuring "speculative technologies, including Specs and virtual server networks over mobile phones." See for an impressive MMORPG: i.e., a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and the connection between cybercrime in the VR world of the games and espionage in the non-virtual world.

In his review of Omnitopia Dawn, Ed Carmien compares the "future gaming" there to that of Halting State (SFRA Review 294 [Fall 2010]: 11).

RDE, Initial Compiler, 29Dec18