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hmm I would rate Accelerando as the least good book Stross have written. I would say that all his other books are much much better written and have better struc
by msh 12y ago
hmm I would rate Accelerando as the least good book Stross have written. I would say that all his other books are much much better written and have better structure but that is of cause my own opinion.
- yk 12y agoFunny thing, I agree that Accelerando is his least good book, but still it is the book that should be on such a list. It is just a lot more influential than Halting State or the Laundry series.
- cstross 12y agoYou might (or might not) be surprised to learn that I agree. Reason: Accelerando is really a fix-up of nine novelettes, previously published separately in Asimov's SF Magazine. So it is, to say the least, episodic ...
- waterlesscloud 12y agoWhile I mostly agree, I first encountered the 'Lobsters' section on its own and loved it for the way it ran with its ideas.
- xaritas 12y agoIt is definitely thought-provoking on the subject of computation and human culture; it's also really enjoyable. It's available for free under a Creative Commons license: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... I agree that the structure and pacing is odd if taken as a single corpus (which is hard not to do in its book form!) I wasn't surprised to learn after reading it that it was published serially over the course of three years. I suspect that the sequence was not mapped out fully. Edit: Heh. When I refreshed I didn't see the response from the author confirming this.