There were two photo-worthy spectacles from the drive up the M1/A1 yesterday – the first I couldn’t easily stop to capture, but consisted of very thin but dense layer of fog around Durham – not even as thick as the tree-tops, just sitting on the ground in the hollows. A really great, eerie sight. The second spectacle [...]
Also tagged a1Just finished Glasshouse, it’s a good read, considerably more mature and developed than Atrocity Archives. It presents yet another alternative future-society vision, this time based on pervasive wormhole and quantum-scale manipulation technology, but with the same emphasis on current-day IT nomenclature as Atrocity. Lots of references to boot-strapping, firewalls and viiri. It still has the JMS/Neal Stephenson [...]
Also taggedJust finished my second Stross novel, which is actually the first he had published. It’s a slightly immature piece of writing, and very much in the Neal Stephenson vein – the basic plot is a little neat, but full of clever ideas and technical insight. Being more intimately familiar with some of the technical terminology [...]
Also taggedIs the first Charles Stross I’ve read (yes, I know, what took so long) and it’s good. Well thought out, mostly believable, and with good writing to backup the story. A little less cerebral than the best Culture novels, but that’s certainly a matter of taste. Stross wins huge points for the best ZeroWing reference [...]
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