Glasshouse Hardcover - 2006
by Charles Stross
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone's trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities-including Robin's earlier self.
On the run from unknown enemies, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a preaccelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters-and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.
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When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlier self knew.
On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for a place to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a pre-accelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: It looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters—and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche...
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A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
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- Title Glasshouse
- Author Charles Stross
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 335
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ace Books, New York
- Date June 27, 2006
- ISBN 9780441014033 / 0441014038
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.42 x 1.17 in (23.52 x 16.31 x 2.97 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006004358
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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