Vinge has an interesting novel—Marooned in Realtime—that follows a group of humans who missed the Singularity and have been “Left Behind” so to speak. Not Sing Fic, but a neat concept.
Come to think of it, there’s a lot of post-Singularity fiction, but very little actual “in the Singularity itself” fiction that comes to mind.
OH! Chiang’s short “Understand” is an awesome watching-the-singularity-happen story, and is available here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm
(Almost everything Chiang’s ever written is brilliant, FWIW)
Did anybody else have difficulty reading Accelerando? I tried reading it once, found it boring and stopped after the first few pages, then later on got a considerably longer way in before quitting but it still took a bit of an active effort. Not sure of what the exact reason was, since I’ve liked some of Stross’s other works (but not all of them).
Not any more difficulty than most of his work. He uses a lot of insider jargon, but I figure most of us would know it already. If you approach it as 9 related short stories rather than expecting a single narrative it helps.
I liked it (Manfred Macx is a great extrapolation of Google Glass-style technology) but it got slow for me roughly halfway through and I’m currently stalled at the 62% point. I haven’t read any other Stross (though I enjoyed the sample chapter or two that I read of Rule 34).
Stross has a good Singularity novel, Accelerando.
Vinge has an interesting novel—Marooned in Realtime—that follows a group of humans who missed the Singularity and have been “Left Behind” so to speak. Not Sing Fic, but a neat concept.
Come to think of it, there’s a lot of post-Singularity fiction, but very little actual “in the Singularity itself” fiction that comes to mind.
OH! Chiang’s short “Understand” is an awesome watching-the-singularity-happen story, and is available here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm (Almost everything Chiang’s ever written is brilliant, FWIW)
Did anybody else have difficulty reading Accelerando? I tried reading it once, found it boring and stopped after the first few pages, then later on got a considerably longer way in before quitting but it still took a bit of an active effort. Not sure of what the exact reason was, since I’ve liked some of Stross’s other works (but not all of them).
Not any more difficulty than most of his work. He uses a lot of insider jargon, but I figure most of us would know it already. If you approach it as 9 related short stories rather than expecting a single narrative it helps.
I liked it (Manfred Macx is a great extrapolation of Google Glass-style technology) but it got slow for me roughly halfway through and I’m currently stalled at the 62% point. I haven’t read any other Stross (though I enjoyed the sample chapter or two that I read of Rule 34).
I loved accelerando...just read the Chiang story, great but was disapointed by the outcome. I wont discuss why to avoid spoilers