Halting State (Halting State, #1)

Hardcover, 368 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 2007 by Ace Hardcover.

ISBN:
978-0-441-01498-9
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OCLC Number:
123232449

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4 stars (6 reviews)

In the year 2018, a daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. But Sergeant Sue Smith discovers that this virtual world robbery may be linked to some real world devastation.

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3 stars

The description of this book sounded really good, and though I do consider it worth the money, it also has the feel of trying to be too many types of story at once. I really got into the technology, of course; no prizes for guessing which character I most enjoyed reading about.

There's a followup novel, so I'll probably dig it out sometime, but I wasn't as blown away as the description might've lead me to think I would be.

Subjects

  • Mystery And Suspense Fiction
  • Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - High Tech
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech
  • Fantasy - Contemporary
  • Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
  • Bank robberies
  • Computer games
  • Virtual reality