Charles Stross may be the science fiction field's most exciting writer. Glasshouse is his best book to date. Stross excels at creating post-Singularity futures that are not the Roman Empire or Napoleonic era in space but complex universes in which people act differently than those of today or of the past but entirely fitting their setting. What he has not been able to do is create great characters -- until now. (Excerpt from the review)

(Source: Ace Hardcover)