By Charles Stross 2004
324 pages
Accelerando charts the not too distant rappidly accelerating future where some new technology or idea comes along every page. The story follow Manfred Macx as he tries to stay one step ahead of the every changing game. Manfred build social capital by doling out new ideas to bring the singularity ever closer. In the process he tries not to get burned by artificial intelligences, tax hungry governments, dominatrix ex wives, economic resets and bio-nanotechnology run amok. Somehow Macx and family manage to hang on through the ups and downs of an ever onrushing future.