A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company

Re:A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’... by burgerbrain on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:36AM (#3897875)

Accelerando, by Charles Stross (a HN'er actually!)

Features asteroid mining, expansion through the solar system in the quest to find more matter to turn into computronium, and some people becoming obscenely rich in the process.

I wouldn't describe space travel itself as the books primary focus, but it's a solid theme. Look into it before you dive into it after just reading my comment, otherwise you'll likely be confused.

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Re:A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’... by streptomycin on Friday April 27, 2012 @09:54AM (#3898994)

And it's available free, under a CC license: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

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Re:A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’... by hessenwolf on Friday April 27, 2012 @04:04AM (#3898089)

Also a brilliant, in my humble opinion, imagining of how we would function with accessible and 'intelligent' autonomous software agents at our beck and call. I've read tonnes of science fiction, and this book really stuck out in my head.

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