false 17863 10 The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular technology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan; Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divied between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form... 930555 2005 Accelerando total:969|5:274|4:371|3:233|2:67|1:24| 969 3711 1443 147 5 3 false false Sat Sep 06 17:05:14 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 20:57:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 05:18:08 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 25 01:53:36 -0800 2009
Stross seems to share some of the literary memenome as Stephenson and Doctorow. The prose style (...more...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 0 1 false 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...]]> 5 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 true 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 08:12:42 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 20:20:24 -0700 2007
The ending was brief even compared to the likes of Neal Stephenson...more...]]> 3 1 false 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 3 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false 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...]]> 4 0 false 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...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Sep 11 06:22:59 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 13:12:50 -0700 2008 0 0 false 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...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 18:23:28 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 11 21:18:34 -0800 2009 Accelerando can be summed up thus: What the hell did I just read?

This is not to say that I think this is a bad book. On the contrary, there's a lot of hard SF goodness to be found it these pages, from space elevators to computronium, wormhole traversals to Matrioshka brain...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 20:04:40 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 17 11:08:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 11:49:18 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 12:00:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Aug 11 14:49:02 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 15:40:25 -0700 2008
Super hard post-cyberpunk for the Cory Doctorow crowd. It showers you with sometimes radically new little ideas constantly (the best are Heinlein style, as asides), but it's at the same time very insular, absolutely written for people who already are into th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 20 04:43:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 31 08:24:57 -0800 2009 Artificial Intelligence, nanotechnology, game theory, memes, technological singularities, new economics, trans-humanism, quantum theory and alien technology all play a part. But at its very heart is the story of a family. Surprising, a very traditional fami...more...]]>