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Hugo Best Novel (nominee)
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 a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both...
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"As keenly observant of our emergent society as it is of our emergent technologies. Halting State is one extremely smart species of fun." - William Gibson
Used availability for Charles Stross's Halting State
Hardback Editions
October 2007 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2008 : UK Paperback
June 2008 : USA Mass Market Paperback
January 2008 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
June 2010 : USA Audio edition
June 2010 : Canada Audio edition
Kindle Editions
September 2008 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
October 2007 : USA, Canada Kindle edition