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Accelerando

by Charles Stross

Three generations in a posthuman solar system

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Three generations in a posthuman solar system

Set amid technological change on a scale that challenges human survival, Accelerando follows the Macx family across three generations. Manfred works with intelligence-amplification technology while dividing his attention between the physical world and the Internet; his daughter Amber seeks opportunity in the outer solar system as an indentured astronaut. Her son Sirhan becomes tied to a crisis threatening humanity as the solar system’s planets are systematically dismantled. The premise brings family fortunes into contact with artificial intelligence, biotechnology, molecular nanotechnology, and the prospect of extraterrestrial life, framing the story around humanity’s place in a rapidly transforming universe.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in hard science fiction and posthuman futures.
  • Readers who enjoy science-fiction stories spanning generations of a family.
  • Readers interested in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nanotechnology as speculative subjects.

Themes

Posthumanity and technological transformationFamily across generationsHuman survivalArtificial intelligence and nanotechnologyExtraterrestrial life

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Book overview

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.

Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity.

For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...
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