Accelerando
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780786566051 (0786566051)
Publish date: July 5th 2005
Publisher: Ace Books
Edition language: English
Manfred Macx lives on the cutting edge of future thought, and the future is coming at us whether we want it or not. The whole concept of humanity and sentience is changing. A singularity of human existence. Only as we become the aliens we learn there may be something else out there, and it might n...
Charles Stross...injects...? (I was going to say throws, but that's somehow inadequate) more ideas into one's brain per page than any four other authors. His cautionary tale, following the vicissitudes of a remarkable 21st century family, across the centuries, and through the wormholes, spawning co...
I am trying so hard, but I still haven't read a Charles Stross I like as much as I like his twitter feed, and that makes me frustrated. I want to fall in love with his books! This gets closer than the two I've previously read, but not quite there. It's a good book, but I'm still a little on the fenc...
This book starts off with a headache inducing deluge of acronyms and technogadgetideas, some of which are well known realities now. It's something that might be familiar to readers of some other Stross books, for instance the ones set in a near future Scotland e.g. Halting State. A geek-guru makes a...
I finally understand why Charles Stross is so popular even though I often find his fiction borderline unreadable. I think he writes for a tech savvy readership and they love him for it. It's great when an author gives you credit for intelligence and understanding and never talk down to you. However,...
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