Accelerando (2005)

Re:Accelerando (2005) by nicopappl on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:58AM (#41454252)

Diaspora is a book for Math PhDs, involving a lot of physics and math theories. Accelerando is a book that anyone can read. Involving hyperintelligent cats and sentient shrimps (actual shrimps, not aliens).

I would recommend it not just for the philosophical aspect (it has a very interesting way of placating transhumanism) but also for the entertainment aspect (aforementioned shrimps, did I mention the Iranian space program?)

Stross is a very approachable author, Accelerando is not his most accessible book, but if you can go through half of Diaspora, you can easily go through the entirety of Accelerando.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by valbis on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:13AM (#41454620)

I don't mind technical fiction, and I love a good hard scifi, but I guess the part of science I am most interested on (when I read literature) is the psychological one - Blindsight is by far my favourite sci-f. However I am totally up for trying Accellerando, so thank you for the reccomendation, you sold it to me :P

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by mietek on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:07AM (#41463667)

Try Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SF series; particularly “Children of Time” and “Bioforms”.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by lproven on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:22AM (#41454661)

I think you mean lobsters.

Accelerando is a fixup of a bunch of short stories, and one was "Lobsters".

https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/lobsters-%E2%80%A...

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