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A review by conceptsoftime
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
5.0
A story about a nanotech world where identity theft is a crime more serious than murder. But also a story about our own cultures and norms. The protagonist flips among the dimensions of identity: gender, beliefs, values, and family. Stross does a brilliant job shifting these perspectives on you, and he is a clever neologist. The book reminds me of Perdido Street Station a bit, but I would say the genre is "singularity" if that exists.
A couple things annoyed me in his writing. I felt there were several redundant segments that could have been omitted. And his technique in this book is to explicitly state (in the first person) how the character is feeling and thinking; I would rather more of the showing and less of the repeatedly telling. But still well worth the read if you don't mind having your mind bent back bitingly - and then opened to new perspectives.
A couple things annoyed me in his writing. I felt there were several redundant segments that could have been omitted. And his technique in this book is to explicitly state (in the first person) how the character is feeling and thinking; I would rather more of the showing and less of the repeatedly telling. But still well worth the read if you don't mind having your mind bent back bitingly - and then opened to new perspectives.