[conspire] OT: Science Fiction, places to start

Bill Lazar blazar at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 11:08:29 PDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> Speaking of Stross (former Linux columnist and web
> developer made good):
>
>  San Francisco, Borderland Books
>  Saturday August 6th at 3pm
>  http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/atent-dead-yet.html
>
> If I had to put one Stross *novel* on an intro list
> it would be _Glasshouse_, but if you can get a copy
> of the collection _Wireless_, that has a bunch of
> his best shorter stuff in one place.

Glasshouse was great but Accelerando trumps it, IMO the best story
dealing with the actual Singularity rather than the afters of it.

Bill




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