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product_id: 12378904
title: "Glasshouse"
brand: "charles stross"
price: "€ 12.50"
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reviews_count: 9
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# Glasshouse

**Brand:** charles stross
**Price:** € 12.50
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Glasshouse by charles stross
- **How much does it cost?** € 12.50 with free shipping
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## Description

Glasshouse

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## Customer Reviews

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    Ultimately, after a choppy start, I enjoyed this book's energy and vision.
  

*by P***Y on Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017*

The time is hundreds of years into the post-human future.  Our present era is one of the "dark ages," cloaked in mystery because data preservations techniques were changing so much between 1950 and 2050 that nothing of value was stored in a durable media. Society is dependant on "A-Gates" that can assemble anything through nanotechnology and "T-Gates" that can take anything anywhere through wormholes.  No one dies permanently anymore because personality and memories can be stored and recreated.Robin is recovering from a self-prescribed memory wipe surgery. He takes up with the four-armed Kay. He is being threatened by something in his forgotten past. They decide to enter an experiment that will cut them off from the universe for one-hundred "megasecs," which is about three years.Once in the experiment, Robin finds himself in a puny female body and he can't identify Kay.  He also discovers that the experiment has reproduced a society that incorporates the gender rules of the 1950s and the experimenters have rigged a punishment and reward scoring system to enforce the rules.I found the first half of the book tiring and irritating.  Basically, it seemed to be an opportunity for satirizing gender roles based on a strawman caricature. Worse, the previously male Robin seemed to be stereotypically female, acting in ways that wouldn't seem to be typical of a male or even a person where gender roles had been eliminated by gender-swapping technology. Likewise, the other former denizens of post-human society seemed to become something like high school girls. It seemed weird and not very persuasive.On the other hand, at some point, the book shifted into high gear as a high-tech spy thriller. We learned a lot about how the paradise of post-human high technology is actually very capable of dehumanized horror. These aspects of the story were what sold the book to me, raising my score from three stars to four stars.Ultimately, after a choppy start, I enjoyed this book's energy and vision.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Memory and identity in the post human era
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2020*

Memory and identity in the post human era. In short very complicated. Imagine universal fabricators, control of space and time ( wormhole gates ) and potential control of minds as easily as software is controlled now. Copied. Split. Hacked. Subverted. Penetrated with viruses. Before long you wouldn’t know who was who or why. Body and gender just an afterthought easily changed. What foul deeds and anguished monstrosities would arise. All fighting it out in the glass house, a sim of our own - or slightly earlier - deceptively simple and placid times. As always expertly written and quite engaging.  Thought provoking.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fast moving, action packed, darkly funny send up of conformists
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019*

Set in a future where Humanity has achieved replicator/transporter level technology, our sword wielding, bad-ass main character has just taken a complete memory erasure and a new body.Looking to lay low from whatever demons they've left in their past, our hero signs up for a three year anthropology experiment simulating late 20th century culture which almost immediately goes horribly wrong.All of this sets up a somewhat contrived, but delightful excuse to thoroughly savage 20th century social norms. I could pick nits with some of the characters and plot holes and you might find them distracting, but I was having too much fun to care.

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