HALTING STATE by Charles Stross

Review of: Halting state by Stross, Charles

Very clever near-future espionage SF. Quite a bit of wish fulfilment going on as the novel is set entirely in an indepenedent Scotland and US is irrelevant to Stross’s future EU - CHina conflict. Rather surprisingly for someone of Stross’s intelligence the CHinese are treated as one-dimensional bogeymen, an almost Sax Rohmeresque approach.

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