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Posted by Dhamaka
,#charles stross,#singularity
Alfie says:
It's a shame about the ending!?!?! Jeeez! I am just about to read this too...
Dhamaka says:
Alfie - it won't disappoint you
JC- that's a difficult one. Earth and this Solar System ....mostly... virtually.....
Euphro says:
It's definitely bursting with ideas, on all scales. I love the fact that the first thing the main character does in the opening part of the book is to moblog their arrival in Amsterdam :D
Dhamaka says:
absolutely - in terms of ideas on all scales - believable futures too - it has got to be in the top three of all books I've read
jc1000000 says:
Sounds cool! I just asked where it was set cos i think accelerando is portuguese for accelerating.
Alfie says:
Charlie Stross is amazing - I have the book now and am starting it in the next couple of days (after I finish the MONSTER sized Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton).
Dhamaka says:
I liked Peter Hamilton's earlier Nano series. He can certainly write and his universes are very consistent but these new ones are so unremittingly dark
Alfie says:
Totally, very dark. Reading this starflyer series I just began to feel sorry for him (and almost all other sci fi writers working today) that Ian M Banks has already created the ideal universe in The Culture novels. Now if only he'd bloody well hurry up and write another instead of these books on whisky.
Alfie says:
Just reading this now; very good but I'm just giggling over Manfred Macx essentially being a sum of Cory Doctorow and Warren Ellis (both noted as kind initial readers of the work).
