Singularity Singularity Sky, Book 1, (Paperback)

from dgphilli

I liked the book, and I very much like the post-singularity world scenarios in which scarcity is a thing of the past -- how do we as humans react to our environment. Understandably some people , like the New Republic society in this novel, are hesitant to adapt to cornucopia technology. A god-lik...

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) I recently had the chance to acquire every single book ever written by trippy sci-fi author Charles Str...

from Shrike58

I've read seven of Stross' novels before I read this one, and that was a serious mistake. One reason is because this is a very entertaining read, as an isolated post-disaster civilization that's a farcical, steam-punk, take on the Russian Empire is steam-rollered by a super-technology force that ...

from stevencudahy

A rollercoaster ride through a brilliantly imagined post-singularity future. Stross writes with a tongue-in-cheek style, loose and quick-witted, and although he's far from a ground-breaking stylist, the prose is decent enough to draw you through the adventures. Although the narrative is inventive...

from TadAD

I liked that he actually grappled with the glaring hole in wide-screen space opera: causality violation caused by faster than light travel. Very little science fiction does...and that's fine if the author is just saying, "Hey, totally suspend reality for a while." However, a lot of hard science f...