Accelerando

The Robots are coming . . .

Accelerando

by  Charles Stross

Accelerando presents a startling vision of humanity’s inability to cope with rapid technological advancement.

Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, the Hugo Award-winning Stross introduces us to technologies leading edge.

Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx family which we follow through the rapidly changing economy of the early 21st century.

In this era of post-human artificial intelligence’s and biotechnological beings, molecular nanotechnology runs rampant replicating and reprogramming at will. At this exhilarated pace advanced technology should make contact with extraterrestrial life imminent.

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