Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. It is a loose sequel to his 2005 novel Accelerando, though it can be read as a "stand-alone" story. Glasshouse was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards in 2007.
It is the 27th century. The culture featured in the novel is what has evolved from the time of the last chapter in Accelerando, "Survivor" (full chapter here). Humanity has sprea...
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Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. It is a loose sequel to his 2005 novel Accelerando, though it can be read as a "stand-alone" story. Glasshouse was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards in 2007.
It is the 27th century. The culture featured in the novel is what has evolved from the time of the last chapter in Accelerando, "Survivor" (full chapter here). Humanity has spread throughout the galaxy using the wormhole technology copied from the alien routers, forming a plethora of societies and 'polities'.
Robin, a male orthohuman, is recovering from a memory excision process in a rehabilitation centre. Though he remembers nothing of his past life(s), he suspects that he lived through traumatic times as a participant in the series of wars that raged many years before. Suspecting that he has been targeted for assassination by persons unknown, he agrees to sign-up with a radical, isolated social experiment that will...
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