The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0080K3HTI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 547 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander…and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.So until the overminds bo
He lives in London with his wife and daughter.CHARLES STROSS, author of several major novels of SF and fantasy including Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Halting State, and Rule 34, is widely hailed as one of the most original voices in modern SF. His short fiction has won multiple Hugo Awards and Locus awards. He was named one of the Web's twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. CORY DOCTOROW
“There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to Makers that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling.” Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians“If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades.” The Times (London)
The sum is not greater than its parts Paul Mastin Perhaps some things are not meant to be combined. I have read and thoroughly enjoyed several of Cory Doctorow's novels. His free-wheeling, near-future stories present a believable tomorrow and strong social and cultural commentary. I have struggled through a couple of Charles Stross's novels. While his hard sci-fi future, including detailed conceptions of space travel and the colonization of space, have been solid and memorable, his stories tend to spin out of control.These two have teamed up in a new novel, The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthuman. "Good Title - Horrible Book" according to Jim. I like complex books (Umberto Eco and Neal Stephenson's later works), but this was just a mess. I imagined giving my grandfather a stack of Wired magazine articles to read. Futuristic - yes, worth the time and effort - definitely not.. "Two not better than one" according to C. Keane. I should clearly state that I am a complete fanboy of Stross, and have a soft spot for Doctorow.In the case of Rapture of the Nerds I think we've stumbled across a case of two heads not being better than one. I think that individually Stross OR Doctorow would have produced a better book than this one.This book is OK. It's a bit hard to get into and I read it more as "this is what I'm reading right now" as opposed to a burning need to find out what happens next. I finished the book and thought "Oh, OK" rather than wild disappointment that it was over. Is my life better o