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Accelerando stross5/19/2023 ![]() In reflection, I'm likely to giggle about this one. Not only were the ideas interesting, but the tale was very humorous at a distance. It was certainly amusing we're referred to as "The Fragile" because we break so damn easily. ![]() ![]() Make no mistake, it's a heist novel, but it happens to be populated by post-humanity robots in an interstellar empire with insurance agents who are pirates, where faster-than-light promises are the best confidence scams, and extinct humanity is gestated in church-owned vats and revered before they're sent to die upon colony worlds as the nominal passed-on wish of humanity's deep past. Like I said, it's not for everyone, but it is for the type of person who loves a good heist novel with huge-scale grifters and con-men. In fact, I've been enjoying a lot of financial chicanery novels over the last decade and a half. Stross blew my mind with Accelerando, but the merchant novels were quite good as well, and one should never forget Rule 34. ![]() It's not for everyone, but I personally love financial sci-fi stories. ![]()
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