“Achelerando! "Soon as soon as possible!" "- as if the characters of this extraordinary sci-fi novel by Charles Strauss from Edinburgh are telling each other.
environment of technological singularity. Behind the book's bizarre and ornate plot is a veritable encyclopedia of fantastic ideas and concepts of the turn of the millennium: the legal rights of virtual clones, artificial intelligence in home toys, the economy of Internet bots, Dyson's sphere, dismantling the asteroid belt, mining on gas giants in search of extraterrestrial intelligence.
All this is just a small part of what the characters of the novel, people and more, who are puzzled by posthuman society, and more, have to deal with. Winner of the 2006 Locus Award, nominee for the Hugo Shortlist -2006, the Nebula Shortlist -2003, and the Arthur Clark and John Campbell Prize (2006). Full debut in Ukrainian.
Book review: Charles Strauss "Achelerando" (author Oksana Pelyushenko)
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