Accelerando, by Charles Stross, available on the web
I was introduced to the works of Charles Stross by Tähtivaeltaja, the best SciFi-magazine there is, about last year.
Was intrigued by description, liked the accompanying short story, waited for books to materialize.
Bought Singularity Sky in San Francisco, and was not fully convinced by the story. It’s good, no doubt about that, but very much on the strange side. In a good way, and it’s definitely good hard space adventure, not the ubiquitous new weird. And it definitely bears some scars of being a first novel (characters get seriously lost among the techno-babble), but is compact and readable.
However, Mr. Stross has been busy indeed lately, and there’s a scary amount of books in the pipeline.
The newest is now available at accelerando.org in multiple formats. Go wild. I know I will. At least to the extent of taking a sample, and then buying the actual book.
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