Accelerando

About “Accelerando”

In an era of the posthuman Singularity, artificial intelligences have surpassed human intellect and molecular nanotechnology runs rampant. Three generations of the Macx clan struggle to survive: Manfred, an intelligence-amplification entrepreneur; his daughter Amber, fleeing her domineering mother as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, whose fate is tied to humanity's, as something dismantles the planets of the solar system. A science fiction novel by Charles Stross, a fix-up of nine previous short stories and novellas.