{"id":110,"date":"2008-05-10T18:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-05-10T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T18:37:23","slug":"glasshouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Glasshouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross\/dp\/1841493937\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1210444594&amp;sr=1-1\">Glasshouse<\/a>, it&#8217;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\u00c2\u00a0nomenclature\u00c2\u00a0as Atrocity. Lots of references to boot-strapping, firewalls and viiri. It still has the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Michael_Straczynski\">JMS<\/a>\/Neal Stephenson issue of struggling to resolve all the cool ideas into a coherent conclusion in the final chapter, but that&#8217;s forgivable, in the same way as Snow Crash was a huge improvement over the highly confuse Diamond Age ending.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably those most Culture-y non-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Culture\">Culture<\/a> novel I&#8217;ve read in a while, with pervasive AI and many other post-human evolutions, and tends to reinforce how coherent the Culture universe is, comparatively speaking. Next on the reading list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Matter-Iain-M-Banks\/dp\/1841494178\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1210444523&amp;sr=8-1\">Matter<\/a>, hopefully it&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Glasshouse, it&#8217;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\u00c2\u00a0nomenclature\u00c2\u00a0as Atrocity. Lots of references to boot-strapping, firewalls and viiri. It still has the JMS\/Neal Stephenson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}