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Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. The novel is set in the twenty seventh century aboard a spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Robin, the protagonist, has recently had his memory erased. He agrees to take part in an experiment, during which he is placed inside a model of a late twentieth/early twenty-first century Euroamerican society. Robin is given a new identity and body, specifically that of a woman named "Reeve". Major themes of this novel are identity, gender determinism, self-image- and conformity. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a sequel to his 2005 novel Accelerando, although Stross has stated that the two novels are not obviously incompatible. Glasshouse won the Prometheus Award for 2007, and was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards in 2007.
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2006
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Beeindruckende Hard Science Fiction, in der die Folgen von technisch ausgereiften Assemblern und Disassemblern auf atomarer Ebene durchgespielt werden: Beliebige Güter können mit diesen Maschinen hergestellt werden und Menschen beliebig ge-backupt, modifiziert usw. werden. In dem Buch wimmelt es von Überlegungen, wie diese Technik die Gesellschaft beeinflussen kann und von Spielen mit der Idee, dass eine Person nicht unbedingt an ihren (einen) Körper gebunden sein muss. Eingebettet ist alles in eine sehr spannende Geschichte voller interessanter, tiefschichtiger Personen inklusive deren Vergangenheit und zwischenmenschlichen Berührungen.
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