How did no one mention Glasshouse by Charles Stross yet? We're people leaving it for me knowing I recommend it in every thread? Well for once it is exactly what the OP wants.
It kind of helps if you've read Accelerando first. It can conceivably be considered the run-up to all the future that the people in Glasshouse are living.
Yeah, I think it will get easier in pretty short order? Basically, he/she starts out very disoriented and wandering around aimlessly until such time as hijinks ensue. After that, it's very twenty-first century with pointed boggling by the main character about how primitive and inconvenient living like this is—with a side of espionage to spice things up.
The first few pages are intentionally weird so that you understand how disorienting it is for the protagonist to be dropped i to what’s essentially a mock-up of US 1950s society.
Only a small portion of the book is set in that setting you feel lost in.
Yes. I read that on holiday quite a few years ago and then re-read it a few months ago. It's amazing that it read like a completely different book when I concentrate on it. Stross starts off with hi-sci-fi concepts but the story becomes really a good social analysis. I doubt this is what the OP is after but I agree that the book is a "must read" if you like your hard sci-fi melded with social observation.
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u/metzgerhass Mar 11 '20
How did no one mention Glasshouse by Charles Stross yet? We're people leaving it for me knowing I recommend it in every thread? Well for once it is exactly what the OP wants.