Halting State is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on October 2, 2007 and in the UK in January, 2008. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born Leeds, 18 October 1964 is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Events 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located [1] Stross has said that it is "a thriller set in the software houses that write multiplayer games". The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) is a genre of Computer role-playing games (CRPGs in which a large number of players interact with [2] The plot centers around a bank robbery in a virtual world[3]. It features speculative technologies, including Specs and virtual server networks over mobile phones. The book is already on its second printing in the United States. [4] It is written in the second person at least in part as an homage to the Adventure games. The second-person narrative is a Narrative mode in which the Protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person Personal pronouns Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) (Crowther 1976 Crowther
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Speculative technology in Halting State
- Specs are speculative computer display technology, reminiscent of the goggles worn by Manfred Macx in his earlier work, Accelerando and the helmet from Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction protagonist Moh Kohn, as well as the 'magic glasses' described by Hans Moravec in his 1988 book Mind Children. A visual display unit, often called simply a monitor or display, is a piece of Electrical equipment which displays images generated from the Video Accelerando is a 2005 Science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories by British author Charles Stross Ken MacLeod (born 2 August 1954 an award-winning Scottish Science fiction writer lives in South Queensferry near Edinburgh. The Star Fraction is Ken MacLeod 's first novel published in 1995 Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research Professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon of Carnegie Specs consist of paired high resolution CCD-like cameras with dual high resolution screens mounted into a form factor comparable to a pair of sunglasses. A charge-coupled device ( CCD) is an analog Shift register, that enables the transportation of analog signals (electric charges through successive stages (capacitors Sunglasses or sun glasses are a visual aid variously termed Spectacles or Glasses, which feature lenses that are coloured or darkened to prevent strong In addition to serving as a wireless HUD as a part of a wearable computing personal area network, they perform image processing on visual information to correct for near-sightedness and astigmatism. A head-up display, or HUD, is any transparent display that presents data without requiring the user to look away from his or her usual viewpont A personal area network ( PAN) is a Computer network used for Communication among Computer devices (including Telephones and Personal Myopia (from Greek: μυωπία myopia "near-sightedness" also called near- or short-sightedness, is a refractive defect See also Aberration in optical systems, Astigmatism (eye An Optical system with astigmatism is one where rays that propagate [5]
- Anonymous Electronic Money
- Onion Routing
- Freenet Cryptography
- GNU Radio
Social commentary
- The novel refers to the Genarlow Wilson case: being a minor, a teenage boy gets in trouble with the law for sexual activity with a teenage girl. Electronic money (also known as e-money, electronic cash, electronic currency, digital money, digital cash or digital currency Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a Computer network. Freenet is a decentralized Censorship -resistant Distributed data store originally designed by Ian Clarke. Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" GNU Radio is a Free software toolkit for learning about building and deploying Software-defined radio systems Wilson v State was a Georgia court case brought about to appeal the aggravated Child molestation Conviction of Genarlow Wilson (born
Characters
- Nigel, programmer at SprocketSource
- Sue, Edinburgh Detective Sergeant
- Elaine, insurance fraud investigator
- Jack, recently laid-off programmer and expert on MMORPGs
Footnotes
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