Accelerando - Charles Stross

Accelerando

By Charles Stross

  • Release Date: 2005-07-05
  • Genre: High Tech Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 117 Ratings
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Description

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...

Reviews

  • Help the Author

    5
    By StockBoy99
    Yes you can get the book free. I did initially but after getting through half the book I decided to buy it so the author could be paid for his work. Anyhow, the stories within the book can be hard to read, you will most likely not understand everything the author is writing about but that's sort of the point. He is writing about the future and of things and culture that does not exist. Still the story within the book is great, I love this book.

  • Accelerando

    5
    By Humots
    Could this be a later edition of the e-book? The hardcover and paper editions included a number of editorial corrections. I have not seen an e-book edition that included these corrections. Maybe this one does? In the paperback edition, in Chapter 7 "Curator" the reference to "Ganymede" is corrected to "Titan".

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