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A loose sequel to Halting State, Rule 34 finds DI Liz Kavanaugh on the trail of a whole slew of weirdness involving a newly created political state, a small time repeat offender, an experimental A.I. botnet, and an ex-girlfriend. All the pieces start to come together amidst a dozen connected murders and Liz sets out to find whodunnit.
This book is written in second person, a move which was a bit controversial in the first novel in the series, but seems more natural and more comfortable here. Whether that's because we, as the audience, have grown used to it or because of Stross' increased ease in writing it is impossible to determine. Regardless, it is an easy read of a novel, save for a few of the info-dump passages required to explain the futurism concepts of A.I. as a distributed network and the realization that there is no such thing as free will.
Rule 34 is a lot of fun, and it's fast. At heart it's a standard police adventure, albeit one laden with an odd point of view and high brow computing concepts.
Recommended.
This book is written in second person, a move which was a bit controversial in the first novel in the series, but seems more natural and more comfortable here. Whether that's because we, as the audience, have grown used to it or because of Stross' increased ease in writing it is impossible to determine. Regardless, it is an easy read of a novel, save for a few of the info-dump passages required to explain the futurism concepts of A.I. as a distributed network and the realization that there is no such thing as free will.
Rule 34 is a lot of fun, and it's fast. At heart it's a standard police adventure, albeit one laden with an odd point of view and high brow computing concepts.
Recommended.