GLASSHOUSE by CHARLES STROSS

Orbit paperback, 400pp, £6.99

Reviewed by David McWilliam

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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CAN BE CONSIDERED TO CONTAIN SPOILERSLet me begin by stating that Charles Stross’s Glasshouse is a text where ideas take centre stage. This is not an indictment of his plotting or characterisation, both of which are handled assuredly throughout, but an indication of the breadth of imagination on display in a novel which is simultaneously a cyberpunk thriller and a complex moral satire - of both our own “dark age” and the text’s fragmented posthuman narrator. (more…)

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