false 491931 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397m/491931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397s/491931.jpg 17863 10 930555 2005 Accelerando total:1027|5:287|4:391|3:249|2:71|1:29| 1027 3917 1539 159 8794 3.71 7197 1144 32207388 214053 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 980 2005 5 3 false Sat Sep 06 17:05:14 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 20:57:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2435200 156533 491931 0441012841 9780441012848 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397m/491931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397s/491931.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491931.Accelerando 4.17 18 2005 3 3 false Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 05:18:08 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 22:51:01 -0800 2009
Stross seems to share some of the literary memenome as Stephenson and Doctorow. The prose style (...more...]]> 33917553 188437 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 2 true Fri Sep 26 14:17:55 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 14:30:52 -0700 2008
The basic template for every chapter is: character wanders around and uses increasingly-elaborate gadgetry--wearable computers and VR glasses give way to neurally-interfaced implants give way to reality-editing "ackles" authorizations to edit the ...more...]]> 58913817 1526945 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 2 false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 08 16:15:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:35:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5806717 122218 945633 1841493902 9781841493909 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179690868m/945633.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179690868s/945633.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945633.Accelerando 4.11 9 Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Charles Stross-author of such revolutionary science fiction novels as Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise-delivers the story fans have been anticipating with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.

For three generations, the Macz family has struggled to cope with the rampant technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. And mankind's end encroaches even closer when something starts to dismantle the nine planets of the solar system in an effort to annihilate all biological lifeforms.]]> 2005 0 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 18:49:07 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 15:10:43 -0700 2007
Finishing this book was hampered in a great part by the language of this book. I'd consider this a 'modern cyberpunk', in that ...more...]]> 49768988 249090 491931 0441012841 9780441012848 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397m/491931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397s/491931.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491931.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 5 0 false Thu Mar 19 09:11:39 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 09:12:12 -0700 2009
Computing power, and artificial intelligence, have passed the limits of human intellect. Nanotechnology is everywhere, reprogramming and replicating at w...more...]]> 67559018 638448 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 20:14:25 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 20:37:31 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 59881790 2425123 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:50:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 09:32:27 -0700 2009 1
But I think I just don't care about hard SF any more. Even the best of it (which I'd class this as) feels like riffs on ideas that are floating around the internet and lacks emotional depth. Po...more...]]> 81936569 2419499 945623 1841493899 9781841493893 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179690845m/945623.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179690845s/945623.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945623.Accelerando 3.60 15 2005 4 0 false Sun Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 24 06:07:14 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 27 02:07:37 -0800 2009
Okay, okay, uh, geeze.

Firstly, I have to say that if I was rating this primarily on how much I liked or enjoyed this book, I would not give it four stars. If I was rating it on how much I enjoyed it, I'd give it two stars. If I was rating it on how much I understood it...more...]]> 80479262 1836077 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 2 1 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 18:25:08 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 20:13:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66644822 1233416 6600905 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6600905-accelerando 3.00 1 2005 3 1 false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 09:46:12 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 01:34:28 -0700 2009 5527880 269927 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 08:12:42 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:23:58 -0800 2009
The ending was brief even compared to the likes of Neal Stephenson...more...]]> 60633979 2445864 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 08:53:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:18:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38397376 394959 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:38:30 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 09:31:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 55970806 2313194 491931 0441012841 9780441012848 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397m/491931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189773397s/491931.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491931.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 4 0 false Wed May 13 14:42:38 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:42:38 -0700 2009 Accelerando will make your brain hurt -- but in a good sort of way.[return][return]Actually a unified collection of nine previously published novelettes, Charles Stross may very well have written a seminal work in science fiction. Seminal not only in exploring where humanity may be going in the next...more...]]> 32593530 1436222 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 5 1 false Thu Sep 11 06:22:59 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 13:12:50 -0700 2008 74824150 445677 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 1 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 09:59:33 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:18:50 -0800 2009
As a reader who has a serious crush on Stephenson's writing, I instantly had an expectation was set up in my mind, as you can imagine.

How...more...]]> 56651982 2175038 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 0 0 false Thu Jun 11 16:29:17 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:58:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 16:29:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74907049 1957039 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 18 07:13:54 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 15:19:47 -0800 2009
Other reviews have mentioned that there were too man...more...]]> 74446859 1498412 17863 0441014151 9780441014156 145 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-m-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/17/863/17863-s-1255812584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando 3.81 1027 2005 3 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:11:28 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 08:30:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=491931