06-17-2005, 08:42 AM | #1 |
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"Accelerando" free e-book edition by Charles Stross
Full-time SciFi writer Charles Stross made available for free and under a Creative Commons license the e-book edition of his latest novel Accelerando: Stross (Singularity Sky) explores humanity's inability to cope with molecular nanotechnology run amok in this teeming near-future SF stand-alone. In part one, "Slow Takeoff," "free enterprise broker" Manfred Macx and his soon-to-be-estranged wife/dominatrix, Pamela, lay the foundation for the next decade's transhumans. In "Point of Inflection," Amber, their punky maladjusted teenage daughter, and Sadeq Khurasani, a Muslim judge, engineer and scholar, try to escape the social chaos that antiaging treatments have wreaked on Earth by riding a tin can–sized starship via nanocomputerization to a brown dwarf star called Hyundai...
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06-18-2005, 01:34 AM | #2 |
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Unfortunately, the site seems to be down now.
--- Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: blosxom.cgi If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 www.accelerando.org Sat Jun 18 06:28:16 2005 Apache --- Hopefully, it'll be back up soon. POL9A |
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06-18-2005, 05:07 AM | #3 |
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They did something to their URLs... anyways, I fixed the download link.
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