Accelerando

Accelerando

By Charles Stross
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Finalist for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novel

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 nanotechnology 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 divided 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 of 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...

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  1. jflynn
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    Packed with Ideas

    I loved this book, though it does take some effort. I read this a while back and felt stupid for not "quite getting it". For my second read, I listened to the audio while following the text on my ipad so I could stop and look up all the references. I spent almost as much time side tracked with the web references on Wikipedia as with the text. As if the the text isn't challenging enough, the Record Books audiobook version introduces a curve ball which makes no narrative sense. Track 16 and Track 17 are in the wrong order!. Make sure that you listen to track 17 (The completion of the "Curator" chapter) before listening to track 16 (The start of the "Elector" chapter).

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