Charles Stross In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. image/jpeg n221957.jpg 10238 2008-03-09T01:05:30Z 7 2008-03-09 15 336 5 Charlie Stross shows once again he's about the most versatile of the latest crop of SF writers, effortlessly juggling policier, VR/fantasy, and hard near-future extrapolation, with a lively (and unusual) set of characters and some... weird... action. A very entertaining and thoughtful read! 2008-03-02 finished http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State