

Glasshouse
Author: Charles Stross
Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Unabridged: 13 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/25/2011
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Charles Stross
Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Unabridged: 13 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/25/2011
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale “Equoid.” His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world’s first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.
John Scalzi claims to be a gateway drug into science fiction literature, I suppose he may well be but I believe Charles Stross is almost the opposite of that. Stross is deservedly one of the most popular active sci- fi authors today but readers not familiar with the genre may find him a little bewi......more
Stross masterfully blends an engaging, fast paced conspiracy thriller with a wildly imaginative and engrossing vision of far future humanity. A central focus here is memory editing and cloning/consciousness transfer technologies run amok. When you can't trust your own memories to be complete, or rely......more
Every time I begin a new Charles Stross novel, I feel the same excitement as when I first read William Gibson's Neuromancer in 1985: I'm reading a work of science fiction that is so unique, so bleeding-edge, that I can barely get my head around it. And then the excitement fades as I continue reading.......more