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Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise…

Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arrests for spamming—and a taste for unorthodox entertainment. As the first officer on the scene of the most recent death, Liz finds herself sucked into an international investigation that isn’t so much asking who the killer is, but what—and if she doesn't find the answer soon, the homicides could go viral.

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RULE 34: IF YOU CAN THINK OF IT, THERE'S PORN OF IT.

DI Liz Kavanaugh: Policing internet porn is your life and your career is going nowhere. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile.

Anwar: As an ex-con, you think your identity fraud days are over. You've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next.

The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's OK, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off your potential recruits?

So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and an international spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.

'SAVVY, FUNNY, VICIOUSLY INVENTIVE - A GROTESQUE AND GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' - Cory Doctorow

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Charles Stross writes hard SF, paranormal espionage and near-future techno-thrillers with equal facility and intelligence . . . Stross skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how reality is affected by virtual technology, and how life in Europe could soon change as a result (Guardian)

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Intenté leer el libro, pero no pude terminarlo. Por alguna razón, comparado con los otros libros Charles Stross, no consiguió engancharme y me resultó muy aburrido.

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Two Steps Into the Future and a Step to the Right

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 15 de marzo de 2012

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What happens when you take two steps into the future and combine web culture with spam, 3D printers, and one of the standard rules of the internet provided by the masses of 4chan? You'd find yourself in the middle of Charles Stross's Rule 34, surrounded by augmented reality, sociopathic criminals, and some of the freakiest fetishes you can image.

It's a good novel that offers a slant of a dawn of a cyberpunk time period. The mental gyration the book presents has you wondering what oddity is coming next while slipping more and more of the macro culture of this world into view. The novel is complex, folds over itself, and then breaks down its own walls to fab itself a spiraling ending.

The book is given to us in a slant of second person. It comes across at times as a first person novel in disguise, as if Stross used you instead of I, but it feels like second person done right. I'll admit this was a hardship for me starting the novel. Second person isn't a format I care for but Charles Stross does a good job with the story and after 3 or 4 chapters of adjustment I was on board with the style. I think what made it harder to grasp is that the book jumps characters chapter by chapter. Not knowing the characters' voices during those early chapters was the issue. Once I became familiar with them, the second person narration worked itself out.

Internet culture steeped into reality is one of the key features of this book. Spam, social networks, and how our relationship with each other comes as a central theme. Any character in the story can be Kevin Bacon'ed to another through various channels. This becomes striking apparent at the half way point in the novel, when characters that seemed unrelated start revealing their relationships with various one-degree characters of our core cast.

This is now one of my favorite visions of the future to come. For one thing, it isn't homogeneous. Some characters are deeper into the tech because they have to be for their career. Others are there for their interest as a hobby or past private occupation. Others do it for the money. The tech just oozes but it's not outlandish. The 3D printers exist today so it's not surprising for them to have more exotic materials and components. Spam filters and spam bots are becoming smarter. There's a joke about someday the internet will become sentient. Applying that to spam and spam filters doesn't sound so farfetched. There's no crazy cyberware. There's no direct neural interface net. There's just high tech that's rolled out of what we are already developing today.

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The AI, as presented as a form of antagonist, is somewhat believable. Stross doesn't present a consciousness as we think of in humanity. It's a far more linear gray scale weighing variables type of intelligence. It's a believable near future AI. The on the ground antagonist is interesting, but his place in the story is a little awkward. Toymaker is a bizarre sociopath with unique quirks and beliefs about staying off the grid, but his psychosis mixed with the constant failings at each turn in his arc left me wanting. He succeeds in a few small goals, cleaning up one loose end, getting his new ident setup, getting laid, but most of those either cause him more issues, or are just stupid for the level of intellect as presented for him. There feels like he should have had more especially earlier in the novel. His final take down and strange departure of the monitoring AI on him act as a sort of climax to the novel, but it doesn't feel earned and it doesn't feel like the actual end of this part of the story.

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Despite my hang ups I enjoyed the story, the characters, and the setting. The novel kept it focused on the characters while still giving up a world two steps into the future. I could see this reality happening in the coming decades.

The book manages to cover pretty much all the promises it makes. In truth we're only seeing a part of the story; it's really a side effect of a bigger picture and we're getting the drippings. It's better that way, though, as we're kept to a certain level of darkness to the real "big world" events that caused the murders in the book. We don't lose sight of character and the events that keep us attached. There was a chance here to do a political techno-thriller, but it doesn't quite go behind fringe access. We don't need to pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

I recommend this book on the grounds of a stunning two-steps into the future landscape, interesting character plots, and a chance to see second person done right. The book is a mystery with what might be considered a twist ending, but the clues and resolution can be figured out about half way through. We learn to feel for the various protagonists, their love and hate for their work, their family and relations, and their feelings of the world around them. It doesn't come off as awkward for most of them, and I found myself relating to almost all of them.

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C. Woody Butler

pretty good near future non-dystopic SF book

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 13 de julio de 2011

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Ok, I read this pretty much as soon as I got it - and I'm re-reading it now so it's probably to early to really write this review since this is a book that really takes multiple readings to wrap your head around. It's sort of like The Sixth Sense [Blu-ray ] - you watch it and you know there's stuff going on that you don't quite see, but it's really cool and it drags you along, and when you're done and you go "Oh!" and it's so much cooler now because you understand and you go back and read it again and go "OH!!" at all those points where you knew there was something else going on but you weren't in the right place to see it. This is that kind of book.

This is a sequel to Halting State , but pretty much there's only one character from that book in this book, and she was just on the edges of Halting State, so really it's a standalone book in the same universe. It also feels like sort of a prequel to Accelerando but maybe that's just me, and that might even be giving too much away.

The basic story is sort of a police procedural (but not really?) combined with a "Life 2.0" or even maybe "Life 3.0" primer about how the world will be after all the bubbles burst and cheap auto-fabbing technology is available on the "village blacksmith" level. With pervasive computing made simple with virtual technology and pervasive observation by the government, and work assignments by smart engines (think amazon's mechanical turk, or crowd sourcing) because everything's so complex a person can't really manage the chaos, mix police, manic killers, auditors (a carry-over theme from Halting State), and a legal system to complex for a person to do the actual charging, into some frothy satisfying deep stoutish beer of wonder. And yes, there is a small subtheme of brewing beer in this.

To me this felt more utopian than distopian - the characters in the book might not have had great lives but there weren't killer androids lurking in the streets or police dragging people away on the flimsiest of excuses, people worked, they had what they needed, they had magic gadgets that could make most anything with the right magic spells you culd download from the internet (but keep your virus checker up to date!), so I'd think it's more better than worse ;).

There is some talk of kinky sex in this (ok, I know, I'm an adult, I should be able to just ride over this, but I wouldn't let my son read this yet, which is sad cuz he'd like alot of it I think) but no kinky sex scenes, as such, it was more like a horror movie - have kinky sex and get what's coming to you.

All in all - while it wasn't a total surprise the ending was pretty satisfying and pretty much promised at least one more sequel (I don't think he's killed this series yet!) which I'm looking forward too, especially if he folds this book's events in with some of the characters from Halting State.

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Just Another Near-Future Police Procedural From the Northern UK

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 29 de junio de 2012

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Reportedly, Internet Rule 34 is this: "If it exists, there is porn of it." However, while Charles Stross' "Rule 34" has a lot to do with the Internet, it does not have all that much to do with porn. Instead, as in Stross' earlier and loosely related near-future novel "Halting State," the book's focus is on the interface between cybercrime and "real life" crime.

The underlying template for the novel is that of a hardboiled detective story in which the good-hearted but lonely and disillusioned investigator (in this instance, police Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh of Edinburgh, Scotland) attempts to solve a murder only to stumble over some of society's deepest and ugliest secrets. Being clever and imaginative and always eager to show off, Stross has no difficulty creating an immense web of secrets that tie together phenomena as diverse as homosexuality and sexual kinks, fiscal hijinks in former Soviet republics, spam, artificial intelligence, small-time criminals, 3D printers (or "fabs"), the dangers of open-source programs, neurological diversity, organized crime, the singularity, the nature of consciousness and free will, credit default swaps, social influence, and bureaucracy and office politics (one of Stross' favorite targets).

In very brief outline, Liz gets called out to the scene of a bizarre murder, only to find out that it's connected to several simultaneous deaths of shady dealers across the globe. Meanwhile, small-time Internet crook Anwar gets a too-good-to-be-true job as the Scottish consul for the government of a breakaway section of Kyrgyzstan, and John, a sociopathic "executive" for "the Operation," a major criminal syndicate, is trying to reboot operations in Edinburgh that include, among other things, production of sex toys for pedophiles. The paths of these three characters repeatedly cross as the death toll mounts and the details of a massive international swindle emerge.

Readers hoping to find new technological wonders in "Rule 34" will be disappointed; virtually everything Stross describes could happen (and may already be happening) today. The rewards for reading lie mostly in Stross' hyperactive snarkiness, his wry observations about the indignities of life as a sexual or racial/ethnic minority, and his unexpected insights into where our wired world is heading. And while the book's final payoff is a bit of a letdown, there's enough mystery and suspense to keep the reader turning pages and wondering how everything is going to come together in the end. Recommended.

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A good near future sci-fi story

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 30 de septiembre de 2011

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Rule 34 is a near future police procedural novel by Charles Stross.

Disclaimer: Charles Stross writes this whole novel in 2nd person. It drove me up the wall. It's jarring, irritating and made the novel hard to read. If he never writes in 2nd person again I'll be happy as a clam. When I likely read another of his novels it will be despite this.

Rule 34 also marks the third book in a row I've read that was set in the UK. But this time it's Edinburgh Scotland. The title comes from the popular internet meme that states "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." Probably because one of the three main POV characters, Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, works in the division of the Edinburgh police department that stalks the internet in search of illegal porn. Considering there is some porn today that would make me want to scrub my mind with steel wool, this is not a pleasant job. The other prime POV characters are Anwar Hussein, a former small time crook now part of a scam that involves him being the honorary consul representing a small central asia breakaway republic. And the Toymaker, a functioning paranoid schizophrenic who also happens to to be the front man for a international criminal organization called..er..The Organization.

The book focuses on a series of murders that involve strange coincidences and malfunctions involving common household items that also just happen to be killing many of the prime movers in the spam underworld. All roughly on the same day. The book does an excellent job extrapolating what police procedure might look like 20 years from now, with everything in the cloud, a smartphone in every pocket, and practical applications of virtual reality used to track and present data visually to all the police working on a case. The book starts fairly slow, with none of the major or minor POV characters interacting, but progresses like a whirlpool, moving faster and drawing the characters closer together until they start crashing into each other while the plot reaches it's climax.

Aside from the use of 2nd person I quite enjoyed this book and would recommend it. A solid 4 stars on the Amazon scale.

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Gregory F. Pfister

Good, Particularly In the End (Meaning Last Third)

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 3 de diciembre de 2013

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In the end, I liked this book. Meaning: I found the last third of it really very enjoyable, enough to warrant 4 stars overall: Things are happening at a fast pace, all the dominoes falling and connecting. For that section, it was hard to put down and a very satisfying read. The first two thirds were OK, nothing special, just setting up of the elements that all play out in the last third. They pull it down a star from 5.

It didn't help the first two thirds that of the multiple points of view used, one of them was someone who was not really all that smart. He kept getting made a part of others' scams, and clearly would eventually take the fall for them. I cringed whenever a chapter came up that he was narrating. He was pathetic. In the last third, even what happens to him gets interesting.

I found the contrast between pervasive high-tech and the ancient Edinburgh architecture to be very interesting (as I did with "Halting State," overall the better book in my opinion). Other reviewers have called the backdrop dystopian. I wouldn't go that far. It's far from Pollyanna-ish, but not a "1984" or other terrible view.

A caution: others also said there was some secret thing that came out in the middle that made sense of everything which came before, and even forced them to re-read it. I kept waiting, and waiting, and... wellp, didn't happen for me.

Oh, by the way: Rule 34 of the Internet (from 4chan) reads "If it exists, there is porn of it." It's meant to point out that yes, there is My Little Pony porn, and anything else you can think of out in the wilds of the Internet. No, this book is not a deep dive into that. Stross does explain the phrase (I bet his publisher demanded that), and there are negative psychosexual elements here, but they're not dwelt on and are intrinsic to the plot. There's nothing worse than, say, a gruesome episode of "Criminal Minds" (the TV show).

Also, as usual for Stross there are some references to things non-internet culturists won't understand. Believe me when I say that for the most part, in this particular book, you will probably *not* want to look them up. Because Rule 34.

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