Jack Tingle schrieb:
> Stross, Charles, "Glasshouse" ***
>
> Stross is a challenging author. If you aren't in the mood, he can be
> unpleasant. He's seldom dull.
>
> Glasshouse isn't an easy book to like, and reading it took a bit of
> effort, but it was rewarding, not so much in the end, but in the middle.
> He relegates the happy ending to an epilog, and focuses on the much more
> interesting and turbulent middle. The journey, not the destination, is
> the story.
>
> As I've complained before, I find sf inside references distracting.
> Stross uses a few in here, but nothing too obtrusive. In fact, his major
> reference, to a military unit called the "Linebarger Cats", took me a
> moment to realize it was an sf reference. And I had to admire it; both
> C'mell and the pinlighters demand it.
Ooooh. This is so nice and clever it makes me want to buy the book right
away. And I have never read any Stross nor do I know what the book is
about.
mawa
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