Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @09:47AM from the can-we-convince-the-NSA-to-spy-on-a-ringworld dept.

doom writes "Charles Stross has announced that there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy because reality (in a manner of speaking) has caught up to him too fast The last straw was apparently the news that the NSA planted spies in networked games like WoW. Stross comments: 'At this point, I'm clutching my head. Halting State wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter-- what else are the NSA up to?).'"

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Re:Scottish Independance by ackthpt · 2013-12-11 09:59 · Score: 4, Informative

The Scotts are to have a referendum on independance next year, as far as that goes.
With Madrid shaking its angry little fist at Scotland, saying the can't be admitted to the EU (which is an indirect way to dissuade Catalonia from pursuing independence as well.)
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

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Re:Probably writer's block by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-11 10:36 · Score: 2, Informative

With Bush, it was still Science Fiction. With Obama, it has become Science Fact.