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Charlie Stross on Singularity 1 on 1: The World is Complicated. Elegant Narratives Explaining Everything Are Wrong!

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Today my guest on Singularity 1 on 1 is award winning science fiction author Charles Stross. It was his seminal singularity book Accelerando that not only won the 2006 Locus Award (in addition to being a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and on the final ballot for the Hugo Award) but was also at least in part responsible for my launching of SingularitySymposium.com and SingularityWeblog.com. During my conversation with Charlie we discuss issues such as: his early interest in and love for science fiction; his work as a “code monkey” for a start up company during the first dot com boom of the late nineties and the resulting short sci fi story Lobsters (which eventually turned into Accelerando); his upcoming book Rule 34; his take on the human condition, brain uploading, the technological singularity and our chances [...]

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Get A Free Singularity Book: Accelerando by Charles Stross

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One of my very favorite all time singularity science fiction novels is Charles Stross‘ Accelerando. I have rarely read a book with such a broad plot horizon (spaning time and space across the whole universe), with such a dazzling imagination (fed by the latest and greatest bleeding edge of science and science fiction), and with such deep implications for the whole of humanity. It was for the above reasons that I gave the book a 10 out of 10 rating here I first read the book from the library and then decided to buy a copy for myself. It is money well spent and I recomend to all my friends that they buy and read it. Amazingly, I recently discovered that you can also get the book for free under a creative commons license. If you prefer to do that [...]

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