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The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod (view source)
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|date=July 2010
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Lucy Stone works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. She enjoys the job - particularly being one of the boys - and it's given her a sense of belonging that she'd craved but never had. And then her mother calls. A CIA spook, Amanda wants Lucy's firm to rewrite their upcoming game to feature the mythology of a small ex-Soviet republic. Krassnia is where Lucy was born, where she lived for her first seven years, and where she spent the scariest day of her life. Amanda wrote a seminal work on Krassnian mythology and Lucy uses this to reshape the game, knowing that it's likely to be used as a tool in a hoped-for colour revolution.
As she's pulled deeper and deeper into the shadowy goings-on, Lucy begins to wonder more and more about the Krassnian folklore and the secret that resides up in the mountain - something apparently so terrifying that it even made Stalin feel faint. And eventually, she's pulled from the virtual Krassnian world to the real one...
If you like speculative fiction, you might also enjoy [[Incendiary by Chris Cleave]], a brilliantly astute look at a woman's point of view, soul and more, when a terrorist attack kills her young son and husband.
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