Outside of a Dog: Stross, Charles: Glasshouse

Karen

Karen wrote on June 29, 2007 at 7:49 PM:

I liked Singularity Sky okay, but I wasn't too keen about Accelerando, so I'm going to skip this one also. Your review makes me feel better about that. Stross's style wasn't exceptional, his ideas are; but his post-humans are a bit boring.

What qualities do you look for in a Hugo winning novel?

Kate

Kate wrote on June 29, 2007 at 8:00 PM:

Karen: ideally, that I liked it, that it was successfully executed, and that whatever it was executing was new, interesting, or otherwise remarkable.

I am not sure that's in order of importance. It hasn't come up yet.

David Moles

David Moles wrote on July 19, 2007 at 4:25 AM:

Could you be specific about which thl tnievry xnl? (I haven't read Glasshouse and I'm not really planning on it, so I'm happy to get spoiled.)

Kate

Kate wrote on July 19, 2007 at 6:38 AM:

David: that would be the (ROT-13 again) "jbr, punenpgre vf qrnq; bu jnvg, ab, punenpgre vfa'g, un-un, sbbyrq lbh" thing.

David Moles

David Moles wrote on July 24, 2007 at 4:42 AM:

Aha. Yeah, that's one of those "You think you're being clever but you're just being annoying" tricks that can throw me right out of the story.