by Charles Stross
Published 2005
Across nine connected stories that march from the early twenty-first century to the deep posthuman future, Accelerando follows three generations of one extraordinary family as humanity barrels through a Singularity it cannot quite stop. Manfred Macx is a venture altruist who gives away ideas faster than he can keep track of them, walking around with a head full of agents that arrange his life in real time. His daughter Amber escapes a difficult childhood by selling her own future to a chartered colony bound for a brown dwarf, where she will negotiate first contact on behalf of a humanity she may already have outlived. Her son Sirhya inherits a solar system that is being lobotomized at the speed of light by minds that no longer have any reason to remember the people they used to be. Charles Stross's 2005 novel, a Hugo finalist and one of the defining texts of post-cyberpunk speculative fiction, races through ideas faster than most novels lay them down: utility fog, Matrioshka brains, economics rewritten by replicators, lobsters in space. Funny, dense, and relentlessly inventive, it is a singular landmark in the literature of the Singularity and a rare attempt to take the implications of accelerating change all the way to the end of the road.
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American · Middle Aged · Male · Narrative Story
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