Charles Stross is a fantastic writer. I like his worlds, his
characters, his style, and, usually, his books. But I am still not
sure if I liked Accelerando. I didn’t like the first few chapters,
but Brian, who had recommended it to me, said I should press on—"It
gets better", he said. So I did. And it did get better. I really
liked the middle third of the book, and was reading it in breaks
during my class this week.
It was terrifically difficult to explain what the book
was about to my coworkers. I settled on "Science fiction written by a
computer scientist, about what happens to people when the AIs don’t
want us around anymore", but I think if I had to explain it to more
technical friends, I’d say "The history of a family experiencing the
information singularity, and what they do afterward".
Books Read in 2006: 23
(I had better get moving if I want to average a book per week!)
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