Accelerando

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• The Best Reviews: Charles Stross, Accelerando

  "Charles Stross has written the singular most explosive work of his career" On the dawn of the new millennium, technology has outpaced humanity's ability to keep up with it. Implants plug humans into the internet at all times. Artificial Intelligence ... (read full critics)

  thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

• Accelerando

  We're so thoroughly embedded in the present that it's difficult to remember that we live in the future as well. It's far too easy for us to sit at our open-air cafés enjoying a global variety of cuisine while wirelessly surfing the Internet on our la ... (read full critics)

  bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

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  Not for the faint of heart (or rather brains). Stross will "future-shock" even the geekiest technology addicts with a flow of advanced spiritual/technological/scientific concepts that will melt your brain if it not made of computronium.

  I wish I had access to wikipedia while reading this book ... (continue)

  Not for the faint of heart (or rather brains). Stross will "future-shock" even the geekiest technology addicts with a flow of advanced spiritual/technological/scientific concepts that will melt your brain if it not made of computronium.

  I wish I had access to wikipedia while reading this book in the train...

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  Francois said on Nov 24, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Singularity...

  according to most people who care about this stuff, is the point in time where technology progresses at such a rate that it becomes impossible to understand what happens next for people who are living *before* the singularity.

  I humbly propose an alternate explanation: it's the point in time after ... (continue)

  according to most people who care about this stuff, is the point in time where technology progresses at such a rate that it becomes impossible to understand what happens next for people who are living *before* the singularity.

  I humbly propose an alternate explanation: it's the point in time after which I stop caring about the characters in a science fiction novel. So, in this case, the Singularity happens around page 120.
  From then onwards, I was reading on autopilot... the author is good at describing mega-homungous-hyper-concepts and has surely a good grasp of a large number of scientific fields, a vast arrays of memes and is happy to throw in-jokes at his Slashdot crowd... problem is, when things get really really very advanced, life and death stop to have meaning, reality can be bent at will and everything (and everyone) is a virtual machine running some sort of simulation sofware, possibly on a stack of other virtual machines simulating everything above and below every layer of reality....

  Who cares?

  Not me. I suppose that The Culture could be considered post-singularity, but -maybe by injecting a good dose of Good Old Space Opera tropes, Banks succeeds in keeping me interested in his characters and plots. Or at least it does most of the time.

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  Pamar said on Sep 16, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I loved the high pace of technological speculation. By the end it was getting a bit weird though.

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  Jochem Meyers said on May 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I enjoyed this a lot although it got super spacey at the end. A tour de force of imagination but in the end the story should have ended earlier.

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  James said on Feb 4, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Huge scope - fantastically original

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  Jon Randy said on Aug 17, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1841493899
• ISBN-13: 9781841493893
• Publisher: Orbit
• Pub date: Jun 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani, Česká kniha, Polskie Książki

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