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Halting State

Halting State

by Charles Stross

2007Bank robberiesVirtual realityFictionScience FictionComputer games
3.5
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are

Themes & subjects

Bank robberiesVirtual realityFictionScience FictionComputer gamesFiction, science fiction, general
First published 2007

Setting

Edinburgh (Scotland)

About the author

Charles Stross
Charles Stross

18 October 1964

British science fiction writer and blogger

Author

Charles Stross

First published

2007

Pages

368

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

Orbit

ISBN

9780748100408

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