Accelerando

Accelerando

by Charles Stross (Author)

Synopsis

His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around, putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of technologies in his wake. He lives at the cutting edge of intelligence amplification technology, but even Manfred can take on too much. And when his pet robot cat picks up some interesting information from the SETI data, his world - and the world of his descendants - is turned on its head.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Digital original
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 01 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 1841493899
ISBN 13: 9781841493893
Book Overview: * Review coverage in the genre press * Featured on www.orbitbooks.co.uk and in the e-zine
Prizes: Shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2006.

Media Reviews
Stretches the limits of narrative to make us see how wonderful ideas can be * TIME OUT *
Stross's most accomplished and strikingly imaginative SF book so far * STARBURST *
Utterly original, gripping the reader with the power of its ideas * DREAMWATCH *
Intelligent future history grounded by terrific characters * DREAMWATCH *
Author Bio
Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full time.