The Restoration Game
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نقد و بررسی
July 25, 2011
Brewing revolution in a small corner of the former U.S.S.R. pulls a writer for a Scottish gaming startup into a complex game of international intrigue. Lucy Stone, whose family has been involved with the tiny ethnic enclave of Krassnia since the 1930s, is asked by her CIA-employed mother to create a version of her company's massively multiplayer role-playing game, using Krassnia as background, so the country's revolutionaries can organize secretly. Lucy is intrigued by old tales of a mystery on a Krassnian mountain whose power baffled the Soviets for decades and now has drawn the attention of an international array of conspirators. MacLeod (The Execution Channel) packs his latest with such density of ideas and detail that the plot moves slowly, and foreshadows so heavily that his tale's eventual climax is undermined, but fans of his intellectually challenging mix of political and economic philosophy, history, and espionage will find much to enjoy.
September 15, 2011
Born in the little-known country of Krassnia, once part of the Soviet Union, Lucy Stone now lives in Edinburgh and works for a small games company. When her mother asks Lucy to create a game based on the ancient folklore of Krassnia, Lucy suspects an ulterior motive; her mother once worked as a spy for the West during the Cold War. As the game progresses, Lucy becomes drawn into a covert conspiracy that she does not fully understand, involving two men, one of whom might be her birth father, and a Krassnian mountain that supposedly contains a powerful secret that only natives can access. The author of The Star Fraction and The Night Sessions tells a compulsively readable suspense tale that blends magical realism with hints of another world. VERDICT Nominated for a 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, this work of speculative fiction set in the near future provides a knotty puzzle as well as a coming-of-age tale as a young woman journeys to find her true destiny.
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