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Currently reading Accelerando[0] as a result of recommendations from prior HN book reading threads. Still in the first, Manfred Macx, section, but I look forwar
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
Currently reading Accelerando[0] as a result of recommendations from prior HN book reading threads. Still in the first, Manfred Macx, section, but I look forward to settling down on the couch with it when I have the opportunity.
[0]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
- ajmurmann 3y agoI loved the beginning and then liked it less and less as it moves not into three future and becomes more fantastical. I eventually stopped reading. The same thing happened to me with Rudy Rucker's Postsingular.
- rcarmo 3y agoWell, at least now you know why lobsters are a recurring theme in some tech circles…
- prepend 3y agoI see it’s part 3 in a series. But people also recommend it alone. Do you recommend starting with this? Or something else?
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoI can't find anything indicating it's part of a series. The entire novel itself, however, is 3 stories broken into 3 parts each: From the Wikipedia entry[0]: "The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
- throwanem 3y agoStross has done better work since. I don't love his doctrinaire interpretation of Lovecraftian tropes, but the Laundry series still reads well, and he does manage later on to go some less well trod places with it. Skip "Equoid".