Book description
His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational
saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is
some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but
populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating
dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around,
putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of
technologies in his wake. He lives at the cutting edge of intelligence
amplification technology, but even Manfred can take on too much. And
when his pet robot cat picks up some interesting information from the
SETI data, his world - and the world of his descendants - is turned on
its head. Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has
worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but
now writes full time.
