Stross's three-generation experiment in stream-of-artificial-consciousness impresses, but his flat characters and inchoate rapid-fire explosions of often muzzily related ideas, theories, opinions and nightmares too often resemble intellectual pyrotechnics-breathtakingly gaudy but too brief, leaving connections lost somewhere in outer/inner/cyber space.

The Wunch, trade-delegation aliens evolved from uploaded lobster mentalities, and Macx's grandson, Sirhan, roister through 'Singularity,' in which people become cybernetic constructs. Ace, 24.95 (390pp) ISBN 978-4-8 Stross ( Singularity Sky ) explores humanity's inability to cope with molecular nanotechnology run. In 'Point of Inflection,' Amber, their punky maladjusted teenage daughter, and Sadeq Khurasani, a Muslim judge, engineer and scholar, try to escape the social chaos that antiaging treatments have wreaked on Earth by riding a tin can–sized starship via nanocomputerization to a brown dwarf star called Hyundai. BUY THIS BOOK Accelerando Charles Stross. In part one, 'Slow Takeoff,' 'free enterprise broker' Manfred Macx and his soon-to-be-estranged wife/dominatrix, Pamela, lay the foundation for the next decade's transhumans. Publication date 2005 Topics Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Adult Publisher Ace Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks delawarecountydistrictlibrary china americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Stross ( The Hidden Family, 2005, etc.) begins his story in the second decade of this century, just on the verge of the Singularitythe emergence of artificial intelligences superior to humankind. ) explores humanity's inability to cope with molecular nanotechnology run amok in this teeming near-future SF stand-alone. ACCELERANDO by Charles Stross RELEASE DATE: JA fix-up novel linking together Stross's innovative Lobsters stories.

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