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Oct. 28th, 2008
Literary references
Oct. 28th, 2008 07:41 pmIt's always nice to realise the people whose books you read also read the other people whose books you read.
Halting State by Charles Stross is a technothriller set in 2020s Edinburgh, and various virtual locations, in a word where everyone wears VR glasses that overlay Google Maps and various other computer inputs over their field of vision.
This includes MMORPGs, with passers-by becoming NPCs, and other players being flagged as such. And at one point...
You hop the bus to Drum Bae, shifting the time with a wee dip into Ankh-Morpork. The bus trundles past omniously looming hunchbacked houses, cars replaced by noisome horse-drawn wagons, pedestrian commuters by a mixture of dwarfs, golems, werewolves and humans from various periods of HistoryLand™. There are only a couple of icons spinning over players' heads, though - Discworld™ isn't too popular amongst the nine-til-five set.
(Double bonus points to Mr Stross for remembering the Disc has "dwarfs", not "dwarves".)
Halting State by Charles Stross is a technothriller set in 2020s Edinburgh, and various virtual locations, in a word where everyone wears VR glasses that overlay Google Maps and various other computer inputs over their field of vision.
This includes MMORPGs, with passers-by becoming NPCs, and other players being flagged as such. And at one point...
You hop the bus to Drum Bae, shifting the time with a wee dip into Ankh-Morpork. The bus trundles past omniously looming hunchbacked houses, cars replaced by noisome horse-drawn wagons, pedestrian commuters by a mixture of dwarfs, golems, werewolves and humans from various periods of HistoryLand™. There are only a couple of icons spinning over players' heads, though - Discworld™ isn't too popular amongst the nine-til-five set.
(Double bonus points to Mr Stross for remembering the Disc has "dwarfs", not "dwarves".)
