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Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross

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I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical extremes.  Bing tells me that “accelerando” means “it indicates a gradual increase in tempo, or pace” which, in this context I think refers to the increasing in technical progress over the years the book covers. 

Stross starts with some very simple suppositions about future advances that are not a far cry from where we are today: personal devices will help us remember more things and even offload some of our thinking.  We will interact with them  using outputs such as video glasses and inputs such as invisible keyboards. Stross plays this through many stages evolution up to and past the technical singularity.   At each stage Stross colorfully deals with all the social implications of the level of technical advance.    He certainly left me asking deep questions about what does it mean to be human, or even sentient.  Stross does interject a bit of political views around freedom of information, etc but they don’t really take away from the story..

One of the things that got me hooked on the book was the free ebook download.. i read a bit then went out and got the hardback edition.  the “free ebook” also fits nicely the meme of the book. 

Give it a read!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2009
    hey brada the book u suggest is vy nice n creative in writing..

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2009
    You should read EARTH by David Brin. Same reasons to love it, but it was written in 1980 about 2030.

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2009
    I must say that I loved it very much also. Its very mind bending and you have to stay alert when reading it, its not really a book to sleep/read at the beach :) Buy the book, and be amazed..

  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2009
    Have you Reviewed Book the Phoenix Rising by Caplan

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2009
    I read this book a couple years ago, loved it!!  If you like this kind of stuff you should check out all his other books, as well as Dan Simmons and Peter F Hamilton.

  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2009
    If you like Charlie Stross, you'll love Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" (and probably everything else he's written) BTW: Vinge coined the concept of 'Technical Singularity'

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2009
    I've just published 2 sci/fi books.