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It seems to be a third book in a series. Do you need to read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise before this one?
by yurymik 4y ago
It seems to be a third book in a series. Do you need to read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise before this one?
- egypturnash 4y agoNo, it is not related to those two books except insofar as they all involved writing around The Singularity.
- pinewurst 4y agoStross has explicitly written that he will not write a sequel to those two books.
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoIIRC, Because he realized he made a crucial mistake in the second one and it's too late to unpublish and rewrite it. Which I might understand from most authors, but it seems oddly faint-hearted from Stross. Fuckin' retcon it, dude. Push updates for the ebooks, start the third book with a forward saying "the book you thought you read was a lie, here's what really happened." If any writer on Earth could get away with that, it's Stross.
- KineticLensman 4y ago> Fuckin' retcon it, dude. Push updates for the ebooks Not going to happen. Stross has a significant workload to deliver other anticipated books (e.g. to complete the Laundry and New Management series) and has blogged about the difficulties and undesirability of revisiting older stories. He has also abandoned other promising sequences (e.g. Halting State) when real-world events overtake his own near-future universes.
- winReInstall 4y agoThey came before and were better in all aspects.
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