Festival Of Fools
ISBN:
9781903468135 (1903468132)
Publisher: Ace
Edition language: English
This is what happens if you say to yourself, "I know! For my debut, I'll write an SF novel that's a giant allegory for the Edinburgh Festival!" OK, there's more to it than that and it's a page turner. Those familiar with Stross's later works will see many familiar themes here - Cthulhu mythos, the...
Singularity Sky was Charlie Stross' debut novel, and for those who embrace "hard" science fiction, it's a good read. Big fun, lots of ideas, and a singular take on humanity. At times, Stross writes his characters a little one-dimensional, but overall, this novel deserves the buzz it generated for St...
an interesting book that took a while to get into. What would happen in a world where knowledge is repressed when a more technologically advanced civilizaton offers them unlimited knowledge, provided they entertain them? Chaos ensues and when the planet in charge decides to try to intervene the UN...
My first attempt at reading a Stross novel was [b:Accelerando|17863|Accelerando|Charles Stross|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1309198110s/17863.jpg|930555]. I abandoned it after about 50 pages, we just did not get along. I had some problems with the prose style, the characters and the c...
I swear I missed the class on the technological singularity when I was matriculating at Nerd University. Actually, come to think of it, I probably didn't so much miss the class as fell asleep the second they got to time travelling sentient whatnot transhuman exhuman time-like wave forms of skimming ...
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