SOLVED. Adult Science Fiction. Powerful solar flare is heading towards Earth which will kill all human life. Some people manage to upload themselves to the net. Afterwards human society redevelops in the form of robots. Read around 2010-2015. [s]

[WhiskeyWolf]

So there was this sci-fi book once I read the summary off, since it was interesting enough. It was around 5-10 years ago, but I think the book wasn't older than 2000, more like 2010 (+-5 years) or something like that.

I can recall the general plot easily, but no matter how much I search for it the damn thing eludes me. It's a sci-fi book taking place in the near future about the entire humanity going extinct from a solar flair. Having some forewarning a lot of still people manage in time to upload themselves to the planetary net. The book deals with life after the end of biological humanity, where the former humans now occupy the bodies of robots.

[Kris]

WhiskeyWolf, is this book for adults or teens?

Is the net or planetary net called the Internet in this book?

[WhiskeyWolf]

Kris wrote: "WhiskeyWolf, is this book for adults or teens?

Is the net or planetary net called the Internet in this book?"
I never really read it, just seen the summary and cover (this one I don't remember), but I'm fairly certain that it was not a teens book, as it presented itself like a serious piece of sci-fi.

As to the net/internet thing I cannot say really, I only know that it was a net of some sort, but not certain of the specific name.

[Andy]

This could be a misremembering of Greg Egan's Diaspora, which has a cosmic event that sterilizes the planet, and humans uploaded into robot bodies Diaspora

[WhiskeyWolf]

Andy wrote: "This could be a misremembering of Greg Egan's Diaspora, which has a cosmic event that sterilizes the planet, and humans uploaded into robot bodies Diaspora"
Nope. Some more context here.

To my understanding the humans in that book did not manage to leave the confines of Sol and the robots they are using as bodies are crude as they are basically repurposed worker bots.

[Andy]

Thanks. I'll let you know if I think of any other possibilities.

[WhiskeyWolf]

Andy wrote: "Thanks. I'll let you know if I think of any other possibilities."

Appreciate it.

[WhiskeyWolf]

Andy wrote: "This could be a misremembering of Greg Egan's Diaspora, which has a cosmic event that sterilizes the planet, and humans uploaded into robot bodies Diaspora"

I'm returning your honor Andy, it was Diaspora after all. Another person somewhere else pointed out that.

your description ringed a bell from my SF Masterworks collection. The reason you may not have been able to find it could be due to the synopsis of the books on the back or in internet stores dose not sound much like your description. As it is actually a small part of the story. This is a hard science fiction form one of the modern masters of the sub-genre and is really about the soul.

In it society is divided into 2 distinct groups (alla The Time Machine)... Feshlings and People that have shed their physical form and interact with the physical world through robotics. The book starts with the 1st ever Yatima born that were never corporal, they were born digitally. Yatima live extended lives in the digital world where time is compressed. The story centres around the discovery of a neutron star exploding out in the universe and a huge burst of radiation coming to destroy earth. The robots have had virtual millennia to study this and realise it is only a week of true days to disaster and begin a culture war to try and get the remaining population of earth to give up the flesh and join them.

Greg Egan is a philosopher disguised as a hard science fiction writer. Even if this is not the book you mean, though I think it is, I'd recommend that people should read this if they haven't already.

I basically got bamboozled by a stupid book summery... not for the first time.