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by Charles Stross (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; New edition edition (1 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841493899
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841493893
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,269 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'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

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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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly far-sighted , 13 Nov 2006
By Omri S. Suleiman "om optical" (spain) - See all my reviews
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Stross's talent of extrapolating possible futures from current technological trends is both far sighted and creative.

The concept of the Matrioshka brain (nanotach that turns a whole solar system into computing power) is beautiful, and its ramifications well thought through.

Other concepts like the Immam who ventures into outer space are great too.

The only downside of this book for me was the slightly soapiness of it, somehow the human interplay seemed a little out of place in the high tech surroundings.

Still an amazing read though, but you'll have to think.

Anyone who knows anything of Von Nueman or Turing should love this book. Kinda like Gibson & Banks rolled into one.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars In the year 2525..., 17 Aug 2006
By Lee A. Fox "foxalito" (Reading UK) - See all my reviews
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An occasionally confusing and sometimes confused narrative, this is nevertheless a compelling read. The high-octane style of its opening chapters give it an escape velocity that takes it beyond Gibson, and plunges into a world strikingly reminiscent, if more believable than 'The Dangers of the Last Days'.

Taking near future technologies as it departure point, it accelerates inexorably towards the event horizon of that obsession of postmodern apocalyptic - the collapse of the 'real'. And in doing so, it does what all good science fiction does. A family saga, set across three generations, it takes relations that we would normally recognise and re-imagines them, using technology and the 'real' to examine the notion of identity and what, ultimately, it means to belong to humanity. And all with a wry smile.

Definitely worth a read.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great singularity SF, if a little uneven, 24 Feb 2007
By mpgc (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
Vernor Vinge created something of a problem for SF authors with his idea of a technological singularity. Accelerando is possibly the first novel to tackle this head on. Starting in the near future, it narrates along the exponential curve of computer power that rapidly leads all the way to solar-system-spanning AI. Stretching characters and a plot across such a canvas is a tall order, and inevitably the story is a little ragged at times, particularly toward the end. However, Stross really manages to pull it off remarkably well. This is SF that takes the idea of exponential progress and runs with it further and deeper than anything I've seen before. It's not a perfect book, but if you like the SF of ideas, you'll enjoy the ride.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disappointing
I can see why it took so long to write this book. Book has some really interesting concepts, but just too difficult to read. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jalepe

2.0 out of 5 stars Accelerando

Having read some of the author's short stories and loved them, and being a fan of all forms of science-fiction, I snatched up "Accelerando" when I saw it in a store. Read more
Published 11 months ago by David Brookes

4.0 out of 5 stars Serious speculative fiction for the hard scifi fan
The most believable prediction for the future of humanity that you've ever likely to read, Stross takes his readers on a journey through the life of a transhuman meme-broker who,... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Richard Mongler

4.0 out of 5 stars Stross seems to get better with each book
This was my third Charles Stross book after Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise and is IMHO the best so far. Read more
Published 12 months ago by P. G. Harris

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book for the technology savvy
In my humble opinion the book is very interesting. Probably quite a lot of ideas make more sense to people who have been studying biology and programming. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
I cannot find Sci fi of the quality of A C Clarkes future predicting uncanniness much anymore. There are some that stop you and say " this is what its going to be like" but not... Read more
Published 19 months ago by D. A. N. Denison

4.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to like this more
I like Stross's Laundry novels - as I suspect anyone with an affection for English spy fiction, and experience of English bureacracy, would do. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. R. Lamont Abrams

2.0 out of 5 stars Imitation without style
Possibly operating on the theory that if Alastair Reynolds could make a career out of imitating Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, Stross has produced this dull, lifeless, witless... Read more
Published 21 months ago by ItsNotMe

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtakingly powerful, though not for the faint-hearted
Don't believe the detractors, this is one of the most far sighted, visionary and original pieces of SF to emerge in the past 20 years. Read more
Published 22 months ago by protorp

1.0 out of 5 stars A pretentious dog's breakfast
This book is a confused and confusing mess about characters which the author seems intent on making as obscure and inarticulate as possible. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2007 by J. Lang

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