Accelerando
Book description
His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Accelerando as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A story of life during the singularity. This is a wacky book that took me some chapters to get into, but in the end it was fun and like nothing else I've read.
This book is my main competitor to Greg Egan for expanding your sense of how strange the future could be.
Unlike Hejinian’s book, this one demands your attention, almost obnoxiously. It’s strange, confusing, tough, but worth it. If you can let your mind enter into it fully, you may miss subway stops like I did while reading it. As Neuromancer was for cyberspace, Accelerando is the game changer for transhumanism—the philosophical movement claiming we will soon have the ability to escape our bodies as information. Science fiction requires extraordinary world-building, but Stross creates an entirely new universe in a series of interconnected stories about three generations of the Macx family before and after the Singularity. Characters download themselves and re-manifest,…
From Mike's list on putting you in a trance (in a good way).
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