The Restoration Game
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The Restoration Game is a 2010 science fiction/techno-thriller
novel by Ken MacLeod
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The novel's main character is Lucy Stone, a computer programmer who was born in the fictional Caucasian Soviet republic of Krassnia but now works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. After Stone's mother, who once worked for the CIA, commissions her company to create an MMPORG based on Krassnian mythology, Stone becomes entangled in the region's politics and her own family history.
The story is set in the year 2008. MacLeod has said that he originally intended to set it in the near future, but the 2008 South Ossetia war
made this impossible.
Reviews of the novel have generally been positive. Financial Times reviewer James Lovegrove writes that "Where his novel excels is in its depiction of the machinations used both by governments and families to coerce others into doing their bidding, and in its inquiry into the nature of reality."
Techno-thriller
Techno-thrillers are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from spy/action thrillers, fantasy/war novels, and science fiction...
novel by Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod , is a Scottish science fiction writer.MacLeod was born in Stornoway. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics....
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The novel's main character is Lucy Stone, a computer programmer who was born in the fictional Caucasian Soviet republic of Krassnia but now works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. After Stone's mother, who once worked for the CIA, commissions her company to create an MMPORG based on Krassnian mythology, Stone becomes entangled in the region's politics and her own family history.
The story is set in the year 2008. MacLeod has said that he originally intended to set it in the near future, but the 2008 South Ossetia war
2008 South Ossetia war
The 2008 South Ossetia War or Russo-Georgian War was an armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and Russia and separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other....
made this impossible.
Reviews of the novel have generally been positive. Financial Times reviewer James Lovegrove writes that "Where his novel excels is in its depiction of the machinations used both by governments and families to coerce others into doing their bidding, and in its inquiry into the nature of reality."