Excellent sci-fi novel featuring Python

[Wade Leftwich]

On Nov 17, 10:37 am, Wade Leftwich <wleftw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm about halfway through Charles Stross' excellent new novel,
> "Halting State". It's set in Edinburgh in the year 2018, and one of
> the main characters is a game programmer whose primary language is
> something called "Python 3000".
>
> The cover features blurbs from William Gibson, Vernor Vinge, John
> Carnack, and Bruce Scheier.
>
> What, they couldn't pop for an advance copy for Guido?
>
> -- Wade Leftwich
> Ithaca, NY

Damn keyboard. The last two endorsers are John Carmack and Bruce
Schneier.