Reddit reviews Halting State (A Halting State Novel)

• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Dune - Frank Herbert
  
• Gateway - Frederik Pohl
  
• Halting State - Charles Stross
  
• Eon - Greg Bear
  
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

I'm assuming that you're looking for stories set in a recognisable, modern or near-future setting, in that case:

• I enjoyed Gibsons other books; the remaining 2 in the Sprawl trilogy are great, there's also the Bridge trilogy and the Bigend trilogy (the last being in more or less modern times).
  
  
• You could try Halting State and Rule 34 by Charles Stross (we're reading Rule 34 in r/SF_Book_Club this month).
  
  
• Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
  
  
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
  
  
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
  
  
• The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

Never been to a reading, date or otherwise. Are they any good? I tend to like just reading my books, you know.

I have no OKC dating-related reading stories. I saw a girl on tram reading 'Infinite Jest' once and I wanted to ask her out so bad. But rude, so I didn't.

Some girl came to me at the bookshop and started talking to me once. I think she was flirting, but honestly, I was too engrossed in my book so I blew her off. Reading is serious business.

Right now I'm reading 'The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift' by Helena P. Schrader and re-reading Charles Stross's 'Halting State'.

I'd recommend Halting State and Rule 34 by Charles Stross. In form they are near-future poilce procedurals, in a world where virtual reality increasing impinges on the real world. "Halting State" involves a robbery in an MMORG that has real-world consequences. "Rule 34" involves a series of murders in Edinburgh, Scotland, that lead to a deep conspiracy rooted in a former Russian republic. The stories use the implications of virtual reaiity and online communications jumped up well beyond what we have now, and their representation of how virtual reality will affect everyday lives and police work will have you thinking.

If you want to a book by Stross that's just pure, balls-to-the-wall ideas, try "Accelerando" available for free, here. It's not representative of his later work, but if you want something to get you mind working ... it'll do.

Sometimes Stross is so accurate it hurts.

http://www.amazon.com/Halting-State-Ace-Science-Fiction/dp/0441016073

Sprawl Trilogy, if you've been living under a rock.

Halting state (http://www.amazon.com/Halting-State-Ace-Science-Fiction/dp/0441016073)vis apparantly good.