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I probably would have given it four stars, but I work in the MMO industry and damn, Stross has it nailed. This is a brilliant look at the industry in the comparatively near future, with some fascinating speculation on the way massively multiplayer online games could spread and evolve, and the sub-industries that don't quite exist yet but will soon. (I bet someone has an FDIC-type firm in EVE Online already.) Aside from gamer-wankery, this is a ripping good thriller, with some twists that completely blindsided me and the potential for some truly excellent sequels. It's also one of the only novels I've read that is written in the second person - and pulls it off. Definitely fits with the game background ("you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike") and after three pages I stopped noticing it at all.

2020-08-18 20:17