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Accelerando
Charles Stross
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Description for Accelerando
Paperback. The third novel from one of the most exciting new British SF writers of the decade. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 101 x 29. Weight in Grams: 232.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841493893
SKU
V9781841493893
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Ref
99-10
About Charles Stross
Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full time.
Reviews for Accelerando
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