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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29
I finished reading this over the vacation. It was really good. Fairly hard
SF with speculations of technical singularity, post-scarcity economics,
cyberpunk simulated humans, etc.
And free, btw. http://craphound.com/down/?page_id=1625
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 07/06/2011 3:17 AM, Darren New wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29
>
> I finished reading this over the vacation. It was really good. Fairly
> hard SF with speculations of technical singularity, post-scarcity
> economics, cyberpunk simulated humans, etc.
>
> And free, btw. http://craphound.com/down/?page_id=1625
>
Charles Stross, currently one of my favourite authors. I'm reading Iron
Sunrise just now.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 3:17 AM, Darren New wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29
> >
> > I finished reading this over the vacation. It was really good. Fairly
> > hard SF with speculations of technical singularity, post-scarcity
> > economics, cyberpunk simulated humans, etc.
> >
> > And free, btw. http://craphound.com/down/?page_id=1625
>
> Charles Stross, currently one of my favourite authors. I'm reading Iron
> Sunrise just now.
Aha! I'll have to check this out, I like him too. I've only read Singularity Sky
and Halting State, quite both different (I see Iron Sunrise follows on from SS).
Bill
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29
>
> I finished reading this over the vacation. It was really good. Fairly hard
> SF with speculations of technical singularity, post-scarcity economics,
> cyberpunk simulated humans, etc.
>
> And free, btw. http://craphound.com/down/?page_id=1625
Yep, I've known about it for a long time. I feel sad that I could not get past
the first 2 chapters so far: it is clearly quite good hard SF, but it's wrapped
in quite dense and baroque writing shock full of jargon and neologisms. It
makes for interesting but tiresome read. I have it in my ebook collection,
though, ready to be finished in small gulps whenever I'm in the right mood.
Perhaps when I tire of all H.G.Wells? :)
I can also recommend another quite excellent hard SF book with far easier and
gripping reading:
http://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife/
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On 07/06/2011 9:30 AM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
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> Aha! I'll have to check this out, I like him too. I've only read Singularity Sky
> and Halting State, quite both different (I see Iron Sunrise follows on from SS).
>
--
Regards
Stephen
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