Accelerando
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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.
Table of contents
- 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