false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176321834m/612875.jpg 612875 3 It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they're able to read each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things. 599331 2 10 2007 Postsingular total:120|5:19|4:43|3:42|2:15|1:1| 120 424 251 53 3 1 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 18:52:09 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 09:41:20 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 19:04:10 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 19:11:45 -0700 2007 artificial intelligence. It's easy enough to get through. But there are a few times when I feel a little too much of deus ex machina, and that the focus of the story is on the technology.

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In ot...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:53:57 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:53:57 -0800 2009 While less well known than William Gibson or Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker was one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement—science fiction with a grittier, dystopian turn. In Postsingular, Rucker explores the idea of the Singularity, a hypothetical point in the future where the combination of artificial intelligence...

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In fact, the world is remade at least twice in the book, first in a freak experiment, and then in a phreakier one. The law of u...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 09:29:19 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 07:24:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sun Jan 06 22:09:46 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 22:27:10 -0800 2008
There are some interesting ideas in this book, like the creation of a kind of telepathic computer chip that makes all of rea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 10 05:15:10 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 05:15:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 08 19:32:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 19:39:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 02 15:52:58 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 15:54:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 12:31:16 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 12:34:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 10 13:00:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 22:59:18 -0700 2009
Don't read this for its story telling, read it for its inventiveness. This book is way ahead of its time. Rudy Rucker...more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 10:49:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 09:35:46 -0700 2009
1st - Jeff Luty is significantly crazy enough as an evil genius that you can't expect me to believe that following the incident at Natural Mind, he would simply let the remai...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 13 21:51:21 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:52:45 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=612875