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Accelerando Papeback -
by Charles Stross
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Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of "Glasshouse" delivers a novel destined to change the genre.
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- Title Accelerando
- Author Charles Stross
- Binding Papeback
- Edition Later Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books , New York
- Publication date pp. 432
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6755804
- ISBN 9780441014156 / 0441014151
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 in (17.02 x 10.67 x 3.30 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Artificial intelligence
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 10
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Summary
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...
Reader reviews for Accelerando
Review summary
Reviews are sharply divided. Admirers praise its torrent of ideas, the generational mosaic of interlinked stories, sharp satire of techno-capitalism and the singularity, and playful flourishes (including the robot cat). Critics fault dense jargon, thin characterization, inconsistent metafictional gambits, and choppy pacing—hard-to-follow early chapters, a sagging middle, and an anticlimax. Several note that while parts have aged, its forecast of tech culture still feels pointed.
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