On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:29:07 +0100, Mirko Liss wrote:

... wobei Stross ja mehrere Schienen faehrt .. grad ist Halting State
erschienen, das ist near-future. Aus der Reihe Family Trade, Hidden
Family und The Clan Corporate kommt angeblich demnaechst auch ein Neuer
und ausserdem noch irgendwas in Richtung space opera .. Glasshouse hat
mich auch nicht soo geflasht, aber dafuer alles Andre um so mehr.

Erstens ein Zitat von Ken MacLeod:
"Now this manner of writing is all very well when you have all the time
in the world, or think you do, but it doesn't stand up very well to
deadlines. So ever since then I've had to plan my books much more in
advance. This turned out to be a process rather like programming. It
starts with days of staring at a blank screen and sheets of paper with a
few scrawls and coffee-mug rings and tear-stains on them. Then you write
a few lines of code and you find they don't compile. At least that's
what programming was like for me. I mentioned this to a friend who is
still a programmer and he said, yeah, that's what it's like for most
programmers. Except Charlie Stross, he said. He would look over the spec
and then start coding like a man possessed. So writing is like
programming for Charlie too. I hear he has eight books coming out this
year."

und ausserdem ist da ein besonderer Cover-Blurb auf Halting State:
"The first couple pages had me hooked, and I didn't touch another book
until I finished it."