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Apr 15, 2011bibliophage91 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A sequel is promised for mid-2011. All-in-all, I ended up having fun with reading this. It took about a hundred pages to get into the story, which is cybercrime and gadgets and subverting the distributed mobile computing communications infrastructure. There are some ‘hmm, yeah, plausible, cool’ moments where Stross extrapolates some online social trends nicely. Gaming, etc. I had a hard time getting started on this book. In the first attempt, I gave up after 8 or so pages. Two challenges: the heavy scottish accent, and that it’s told in second person from rotating points of view.