Accelerando

Charles Koeppen said What a ride!. I'll mention the bad stuff first. This book, particularly the first half, was a difficult read. I was considering stopping reading it at about halfway through because it was so tedious, and that was a fair investment of time I had already spent because this is a long book, my Kindle said it should take about 19 hours for the whole book. However, about halfway through, when I got to the part where the characters that were uploaded people in a shoe box size space ship flying to the edge of the solar system find a router built by some other advanced civilization, I decided I had . "Unsatisfying Singularity Back-Story" according to James R Petrarca. If readability were the only factor I considered in rating this book, I'd have given it only two stars. Frequent naps were needed to get through the book because it kept making me drowsy. But the author did try to imagine the unimaginable - that is, to conjure up a picture of the post-singularity future. So I'll give him credit for taking a stab at the impossible. That vision, unfortunately, lacks even the tiniest smidgen of credibility. It's just out-of-control imagination, and it's very tedious to read.Iron Sunrise was by far the best book of the series. Its plot line and ch. Luners said The entire transhuman/posthuman science fiction genre in a single book.. This book certainly has flaws in character development and some peculiar verbiage, but on the whole it is the single best summation of all of the transhuman/posthuman science fiction themes in one package. If you had to read only one book about the technological singularity, read this one (due apologies to Verner Vinge).The story spans several generations of a 'family' from just before the singularity until well past it. As with all Charles Stross books, the tone is cheeky, irreverent, and slightly manic, all of which produces a very engrossing read that makes this book hard t

Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Something beyond human comprehension. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something that has no use for biological life in any form. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. It is the era of the posthuman. The Singularity. 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