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Saturn's Children
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Charles Stross - Saturn's Children

Charles Stross is a unique voice among today’s wave of “New British SF” writers, but he also knows his history. Saturn’s Children is dedicated to old lions Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, and the ghosts of both (especially Heinlein) can be felt in the latest effort. Reviews of the novel vary wildly, which may suggest as much about the tastes of particular

 
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Tags: Children, Charles, Stross, Saturn, Heinlein
Wireless
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Charles Stross - Wireless

From the short and funny MAXOS to the long and dark Missile Gap, Wireless is an amazing tour through Stross' futuristic world view. Central to this view is the observation that if there is anything out there in the stars it will surely defy our comprehension.

 
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Singularity Sky
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Charles Stross - Singularity Sky

In his first novel, British author Stross, one of the hottest short-story writers in the field, serves up an energetic and sometimes satiric mix of cutting-edge nanotechnology, old-fashioned space opera and leftist political commentary reminiscent of Ken MacLeod. Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat

 
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Tags: Stross, Singularity, political, commentary, leftist, opera
Accelerando
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Charles Stross - Accelerando

Stross' novel follows several generations of the Macx family through the rapidly transforming, Internet-enabled global economy of the early twenty-first century to the human and transhuman populated worlds of the outer solar system a half century later. The saga begins with Macx patriarch Manfred, a freelance "venture altruist," giving away patentable high-tech ideas in exchange for endless handouts while looking forward to the day when nanotech-programmed smart matter surpasses humanity in intelligence and productivity.

 
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Tags: century, Accelerando, Stross, high-tech, ideas, patentable