Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.
Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. 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.
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. 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 bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.
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CORY DOCTOROW is a coeditor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications including the Guardian, Locus, and Publishers Weekly. He was named one of the Web’s twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. 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 lives in Edinburgh.
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For the content of the book refer to the description above - for my opinion: I loved it. It was fast, very intelligent, surprising and very entertaining without being to plain and easy. It rewards readers who are familiar with the idea of the singularity, but anyone can read it. It is more Charles Stross then Cory Doctorow imho if you are familiar with both authors. I enjoyed it and hope they are going to work together again.
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Hard work with moments of reading joy
11. September 2012
Von N. Boer
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This was by no means a quick read - not only are the references arcane to the point of incomprehensibility, the plot is not so much constructed but thrown together, a sequence of nonsensical events that build up to non-climaxes and finally ends on a rather soppy note. That being said, the writing is excellent, and some of these sequences or plot segments are great fun - the moments of sheer absurdity proliferate, but continue to surprise and amuse.
The protagonist - a misanthropic Luddite Welshman living on a post-Singularity Earth where humans no longer die, but choose to be 'uploaded' to the Cloud, where they continue a virtual (and extremely tacky) existence - is extremely annoying for most of the text. Deeply passive, he is (often literally) dragged from one horrendous and painful experience to the next, continuously requiring rescue like an old-fashioned princess. (Note: Extremely graphic descriptions of various forms of torture and injury abound - somewhat gratuitous, in my opinion.) In each adventure, he is expected to 'save the world' in some way or another (the threats becoming increasingly dire), and thus finds himself (sometimes herself - gender is a construct, after all) in the odd position of having to defend a mankind he despises.
If you're looking for light, amusing sci-fi, turn elsewhere - this novel both requires and frustrates your full attention. It does have its rewards, but, unless you're fully conversant with all things gaming and internet-related, I'm not sure if the rewards are worth the slog.
The protagonist - a misanthropic Luddite Welshman living on a post-Singularity Earth where humans no longer die, but choose to be 'uploaded' to the Cloud, where they continue a virtual (and extremely tacky) existence - is extremely annoying for most of the text. Deeply passive, he is (often literally) dragged from one horrendous and painful experience to the next, continuously requiring rescue like an old-fashioned princess. (Note: Extremely graphic descriptions of various forms of torture and injury abound - somewhat gratuitous, in my opinion.) In each adventure, he is expected to 'save the world' in some way or another (the threats becoming increasingly dire), and thus finds himself (sometimes herself - gender is a construct, after all) in the odd position of having to defend a mankind he despises.
If you're looking for light, amusing sci-fi, turn elsewhere - this novel both requires and frustrates your full attention. It does have its rewards, but, unless you're fully conversant with all things gaming and internet-related, I'm not sure if the rewards are worth the slog.
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Funny, futuristic and ultimately disappoitning
11. September 2012
Von Arne Jonny Bakkevold
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Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross are two of the brightest lights in the SF firmament. Between them they have written such classics, and bestsellers, as Singularity Sky, Little Brother, Atrocity Archives and Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom. And during the last decade they have been writing loosely connected novellas about a post-singularity future. This novel is a sort of "fix-up" of these novellas into a novel, with some additional material added.
At the start of the novel, Huw, the protagonist, wakes up with a bad hangover in a bathtub and the day gets worse from there. By the time the novel is over, Huw have changed sexes a couple of times and is uploaded to Cloud and desperately wants to be back in his pottery in Wales.
The story is fun and funny. There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud movements in the book. The story is exciting and surprising, but what ultimately sinks the novel for me is the ending. After all that has gone before - the ending feels a little anticlimactic - and I realize that might sound weird when saving the world is at stake. Stross and Doctorow are wonderful authors by themselves - and this book have wonderful elements. But they stay that way. Just elements.
I recommend this book if you like the authors and are somewhat familiar with the whole singularity idea.
At the start of the novel, Huw, the protagonist, wakes up with a bad hangover in a bathtub and the day gets worse from there. By the time the novel is over, Huw have changed sexes a couple of times and is uploaded to Cloud and desperately wants to be back in his pottery in Wales.
The story is fun and funny. There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud movements in the book. The story is exciting and surprising, but what ultimately sinks the novel for me is the ending. After all that has gone before - the ending feels a little anticlimactic - and I realize that might sound weird when saving the world is at stake. Stross and Doctorow are wonderful authors by themselves - and this book have wonderful elements. But they stay that way. Just elements.
I recommend this book if you like the authors and are somewhat familiar with the whole singularity idea.
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Rapture of the Nerds: A romp and a stomp
8. September 2012
Von James R. Caplan
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Wow! The book starts out as a zany romp, in the style of Bill, The Galactic Hero, on pot. I can imagine that if Docterow and Stross actually tried to write this in the same room, most of their time together was spent rolling on the floor giggling.
As it progresses, the story of Huw, the luddite offspring of two genius parents, undergoes the most amazing transformation as it marginalizes fundamental religion, technogeeks, and politics, in no particular order. I would describe it as a post-singularity coming of age story. The puns are atrocious, the references obscure, and the plot line, multi-dimensional. In a world where transgenderfication can take place in a normal bathroom, the reader will find he can't tell the players without a DNA scan. I enjoyed this book as satire, as serious criticism, and as a bizarre adventure. If you are prepared to read this with your browser open to Google and a background in gaming and technology, this will be fun.
As it progresses, the story of Huw, the luddite offspring of two genius parents, undergoes the most amazing transformation as it marginalizes fundamental religion, technogeeks, and politics, in no particular order. I would describe it as a post-singularity coming of age story. The puns are atrocious, the references obscure, and the plot line, multi-dimensional. In a world where transgenderfication can take place in a normal bathroom, the reader will find he can't tell the players without a DNA scan. I enjoyed this book as satire, as serious criticism, and as a bizarre adventure. If you are prepared to read this with your browser open to Google and a background in gaming and technology, this will be fun.
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