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Charles Stross: Accelerando (2005)

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits …

Review of 'Accelerando' on 'LibraryThing'

At its best, this book is a wonderfully imaginative "what if?" that takes the ideas of posthumanists/accelerationists/singularitarians seriously enough to think through how unappealing their future might actually be. But much of the time I found myself struggling through too much density of jargon, pseudo-physics and sci-fi cliches to enjoy it.