Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> 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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