The novel went on to become very much successful and was also nominated for the Hugo Award. Later, he wrote his first novel titled ‘Singularity Sky’, which was released by the Ace Books in the year 2003. It appeared in the Interzone magazine in the year 1987. This was the first thing I read by him, and I might track down Saturn's Children. The first short story written by author Stross was published as ‘The Boys’. Stross throws in other good lines and references, like 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.' The ending was somewhat rushed, but I liked the concept, and Stross is a fun writer. Saturn's Children by Charles Stross 3.58 7,412 Ratings 594 Reviews published 2008 23 editions Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity wen More Want to Read Rate it: Book 1.5 Bit Rot by Charles Stross 3. The main narrative is a sort of sci-fi detective thriller that brought to mind Balzac's line that 'Behind every great fortune there is a great crime'. Heinlein tribute',1 specifically to Heinlein's 1982 novel Friday.234 Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. Stross called it 'a space opera and late-period Robert A. Stross makes a good point about interstellar colonization being similar to a Ponzi scheme, and that concept has a good resonance with how the main character, a pseudo-clone whose specialty is the history of banking frauds, had to spend the first decades of her life working as an indentured servant to pay off the costs of creating her. Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross.

There's a lot of economics in the book, which I enjoyed - if you've ever read Paul Krugman's joke paper The Theory of Interstellar Trade, on the mechanics of interest rates when one of the parties is traveling at relativistic speeds, you will have a blast. I thought the main plot of the book, which involves identity theft, interstellar fraud, and bitcoins, was enjoyable overall. It's impossible to dislike a book whose first sentence is ''I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit,' said the travel agent.' The world Stross created here is just as fun as that opening sentence, if somewhat reminiscent of Dan Simmons' Hyperion.