The Rapture of the Nerds 9780765329103

from kevinashley

Set in a post-singularity world where much of humanity has uploaded to a solar-system wide computational cloud. Earth is split between societies of extremes, with religious fundamentalists reigning in much of what is left of a post-nuclear USA. Our protagonist is Huw, an avowed technophobe whose ...

from woakden

As a fan of both Stross & Doctorow, I figured this book would definitely be worth reading. I wasn't wrong, but instead of combining my favorite aspects of both writers, it wound up combining my least favorite elements of both their styles...which still made for a very enjoyable book. Humanity has...

from Shrike58

Living on a ragged and ruined Earth, after most of humanity has uploaded itself into a thought cloud surrounding the Sun, Huw Jones mostly just wants to get drunk, work on his ceramics, and grouse about his long-gone parents. Then, one day, Jones gets swept up in a public inquiry about whether a ...

from beentsy

This was pretty great. Even if it did make me feel like a geek well past her sell by date.

from alovett

Doctorow, Cory and Charles Stross. Rapture of the Nerds. 2012. 349 pp. $24.99. Tor Books. 978-0-76532-910-3. Ages 14 & Up. In this post-singularity world, much of the world's population has decided to upload their consciousness to the cloud. Huw Jones, a technophobic resident of Wales who spends ...