![]() ![]() If it's as good a game as 'Halting State' is a novel, then that someone might make a nice little king's ransom, probably more than the publishers will earn from the novel. That said, someone is likely preparing a MMPORG game based on the novel as I write. Emulating the game-playing environment in which it is set, 'Halting State' proves games will have a ways to go before they become as engrossing as the novel. Written entirely in the second person, 'Halting State' immerses the reader in a traditional game of cat and mouse, played against the very untraditional backdrop of the world some ten years hence that Stross creates. "The author addresses the reader - to give him notice." It took reality a mere 36 years to catch up with Lem, at least in the form of 'Halting State' by Charles Stross. ![]() ![]() "The novel is pulling back into the author," Stanislaw Lem tells us, reviewing the imaginary title Toi ("You") by Raymond Sereault in 'A Perfect Vacuum', his collection of "Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books". ![]()
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