Final thoughts on ACCELERANDO
I finally finished up Charles Stross’ ACCELERANDO late last week. Although it was filled with some amazing ideas, I’m afraid I can’t endorse it as a coherent novel. I’m still not quite sure what I read, or what the point of the book was. Something vaguely to do with post humans threatening organic life in the universe, possibly even effecting the universe on a subatomic level.
Still, you can’t beat ideas like a mission to find an extraterrestrial internet, accessible from a router in orbit around a brown dwarf star, or lawsuits used as a denial of service attack to businesses, or a man uploading a copy of his consciousness into a flock of artificial pigeons.
Next up: THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by Max Brooks. Light reading, to say the least.
Book Reviews | jeff | 09 April 2007 |
