| Accelerando Contributor(s): Stross, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0441014151 ISBN-13: 9780441014156 Publisher: Ace Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of "Glasshouse" delivers a novel destined to change the genre. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction - Fiction | Thrillers - Technological - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Singularity |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 4.2" W x 6.7" (0.65 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form... |