Accelerando was all right, but unexciting if you already read of most of the ideas back in the 90s (in Extropy, etc.). Similarly Vinge's _Rainbows End_ was a much bigger deal to me than Stross's _Halting State_. I do read Stross, just without the same avidity.

I like Banks; he's a first-rate writer, as a writer. Not really in the same category for me of writers who hit my hacker sweet-spot: Vinge and Stephenson.

Haven't read Morgan.

A bit of a Blub paradox here wrt Stross and Vinge. My author can beat up your author?