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Accelerando

Authors:: Charles Stross (author) and Rita Frangie (covers)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Ace Books
Categories:: Novel and science fiction
Publication year:: 2005
ISBN:: 0-441-01284-1
Synopsis:: Manfred Macx, a heavily augmented transhuman in the early 21st century, is a visionary and a so-called venture altruist: He roams the world, giving ideas away for free and turning paradigms upside-down as a matter of course. The novel follows him towards a technological singularity, his daughter Amber through it, and her son, Sirhan, after it.
Review:: This novel is somewhat special in that it is chuck full of jargon (e.g. 419) and techno-speculation (e.g. utility fog). Have a dictionary handy if you want to avoid being drowned in it. It's when you understand all of it, if only superficially, that the novel becomes the brilliant flair of wild ideas that it is.
Has read?: Yes
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Table of Contents:: [Toggle visibility]

Part 1: Slow Takeoff

1: Lobsters

2: Troubadour

3: Tourist

Part 2: Point of Inflection

4: Halo

5: Router

6: Nightfall

Part 3: Singularity

7: Curator

8: Elector

9: Survivor